Cohort Profile Update: Project Viva Offspring

Sheryl L Rifas-Shiman¹, Izzuddin M Aris¹, Karen M Switkowski¹, Jessica Young¹, Abby F Fleisch^{2

3}, Wei Perng⁴, Jorge E Chavarro^{5

6

7}, Andres Cardenas⁸, Diane R Gold⁶, Mingyu Zhang^{1

9}, Peter James¹, Rachel C Whooten¹⁰, Ken P Kleinman¹¹, Emily Oken^{1

5}, Marie-France Hivert^{1

12}

Affiliations

¹ Division of Chronic Disease Research Across the Lifecourse, Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, MA, USA.
² Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes, Maine Medical Center, Portland, ME, USA.
³ Center for Interdisciplinary Population and Health Research, MaineHealth Institute for Research, Portland, ME, USA.
⁴ Department of Epidemiology and the Lifecourse Epidemiology of Adiposity and Diabetes (LEAD) Center, Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado Denver Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA.
⁵ Department of Nutrition, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
⁶ Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
⁷ Department of Epidemiology, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
⁸ Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Stanford Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.
⁹ Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
¹⁰ Division of Pediatric Endocrinology, Department of Pediatrics, Massachusetts General Hospital for Children, Boston, MA, USA.
¹¹ Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health and Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, USA.
¹² Diabetes Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.

Sheryl L Rifas-Shiman et al. Int J Epidemiol. 2024.

. 2024 Oct 13;53(6):dyae162.

doi: 10.1093/ije/dyae162.

¹ Division of Chronic Disease Research Across the Lifecourse, Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, MA, USA.
² Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes, Maine Medical Center, Portland, ME, USA.
³ Center for Interdisciplinary Population and Health Research, MaineHealth Institute for Research, Portland, ME, USA.
⁴ Department of Epidemiology and the Lifecourse Epidemiology of Adiposity and Diabetes (LEAD) Center, Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado Denver Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA.
⁵ Department of Nutrition, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
⁶ Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
⁷ Department of Epidemiology, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
⁸ Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Stanford Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.
⁹ Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
¹⁰ Division of Pediatric Endocrinology, Department of Pediatrics, Massachusetts General Hospital for Children, Boston, MA, USA.
¹¹ Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health and Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, USA.
¹² Diabetes Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.

No abstract available

Keywords: Cohort; adolescent; allergy; asthma; behavioural health; cardiometabolic health; child; neurodevelopment; obesity; respiratory health.

Conflict of interest statement

None declared.

Associations of street-view greenspace exposure with cardiovascular health (Life's Essential 8) among women in midlife.
Rifas-Shiman SL, Yi L, Aris IM, Lin PD, Hivert MF, Chavarro JE, Suel E, James P, Oken E. Rifas-Shiman SL, et al. Biol Sex Differ. 2025 Jul 1;16(1):45. doi: 10.1186/s13293-025-00718-3. Biol Sex Differ. 2025. PMID: 40598663 Free PMC article.
Assessing greenspace and cardiovascular health through deep-learning analysis of street-view imagery in a cohort of US children.
Yi L, Rifas-Shiman S, Pescador Jimenez M, Lin PD, Suel E, Hystad P, Larkin A, Hankey S, Zhang W, Klompmaker J, Oken E, Hivert MF, Aris I, James P. Yi L, et al. Environ Res. 2025 Jan 15;265:120459. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2024.120459. Epub 2024 Nov 26. Environ Res. 2025. PMID: 39603586

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