Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

Amount

$529,239.00

Award Date

9/17/2009

Administering Agency

Health and Human Services, Department of / National Institutes of Health

CDFA Number

93.701

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support

Description

This project pursues the hypothesis that lifetime cumulative exposure to ambient air pollution is associated with sonographically measured carotid intima-media thickness (CIMT) at age 18-20. CIMT is an established marker of subclinical atherosclerosis - t