Guangzhou Nutrition and Health Study (GNHS)

Summary

Purpose: The Guangzhou Nutrition and Health Study (GNHS) project aims to assess the determinants of metabolic disease in nutritional aspects, as well as other environmental and genetic factors, and explore possible mechanisms with multi-omics integration.

Study design: GNHS is a community-based prospective cohort study. Participants: In this cohort, the original GNHS and another cohort study (the controls of a case-control study of hip fractures, CCFH) have been integrated into the one GNHS project. After completing the baseline examination, a total of 5118 participants were recruited during 2008-2015 in the GNHS project.

Visits and Data Collection: Participants were/will be visited every three years by invited to the School of Public Health, Sun Yat-sen University. At each visit, face-to-face interviews, specimen collection, anthropometric measurements, dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA) scanning, ultrasonography evaluation, vascular endothelial function evaluation, cardiopulmonary exercise testing, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), 14-d real-time continuous glucose monitoring tests, laboratory tests, and multi-omics data were/will be conducted. Up to December 2022, 3442 and 2895 subjects completed the 2nd and 3rd visits.

Key variables:

1. Questionnaire interviews.
2. Physical examinations: Anthropometric measurements, blood pressure tests, handgrip strength, muscle function and bracelet motion monitoring.
3. DXA scanning: To determine bone density, bone mineral content, bone geometry information, fat mass, and muscle mass.
4. Ultrasonography evaluations: To determine carotid artery intima-media thickness and plaque, and fatty liver.
5. Vascular endothelial function evaluation.
6. Cardiopulmonary exercise testing: Lung function.
7. MRI: Brain and upper-abdomen MRI.
8. 14-d Real-time continuous glucose monitoring tests.
9. Specimen collections: Overnight fasting blood, early morning first-void urine, faces, and saliva samples.
10. Laboratory tests: Metabolic syndrome-related indices; Diabetes-related indices; Uric acid; Nutritional indices; Inflammatory cytokines; Index of oxidative stress; Adipocytes; Sexual hormones; Liver and renal function-related markers; Routine blood test.
11. Multi-omics data: Genotyping data; Gut microbiota; Untargeted serum and fecal proteomics; Targeted serum and fecal metabolomics.
12. Morbidity and mortality: Relevant data were/will be also retrieved via local multiple health information systems.

Conditions

• Cardiovascular Diseases
• Osteoporosis
• Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2
• Metabolic Syndrome
• Obesity
• Hypertension
• Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
• Chronic Kidney Diseases
• Cancer
• Death
• Nutrition Disorders
• Sarcopenia

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Sun Yat-sen University

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Yuming Chen · Sun Yat-sen University

Eligibility

Min Age

40 Years

Max Age

83 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2008-07-01

Primary Completion

2023-12-31

Completion

2027-12-31