Healthy Start: Exploring the Fuel-mediated Programming of Neonatal Growth

University of Colorado, Denver2,821 enrolled

Overview

The purpose of this study is to establish and follow longitudinally a cohort of ethnically diverse pregnant women and their offspring, in order to explore the hypothesis that fetal over-nutrition is associated with obesity, metabolic, and cardiovascular abnormalities in the offspring.

Study Type

OBSERVATIONAL

Enrollment

2,821

Conditions

Pregnancy Obesity

Interventions

Maternal factorsOTHER

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 16 YearsHealthy volunteers:

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Inclusion Criteria: * Pregnant women and infants * Prior to 23 completed weeks of gestation * Live in Colorado Exclusion Criteria: * Multiple gestation * Preexisting * cancer * psychiatric disease * steroid-dependent asthma, or * diabetes * Previous premature delivery prior to 25 weeks gestation or fetal demise

Locations (1)

University of Colorado Denver

Aurora, Colorado, United States

RECRUITING

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Fat mass

Body composition assessed via air displacement plethysmography to calculate fat mass and fat-free mass.

Time frame: Birth

Fat mass

Body composition assessed via air displacement plethysmography to calculate fat mass and fat-free mass.

Time frame: 5 years

Secondary Outcomes

Fat mass

Body composition assessed via air displacement plethysmography to calculate fat mass and fat-free mass.

Time frame: 5 months

Central Contacts

Dana Dabelea, MD, PhD

CONTACT

303-724-4414 Dana.Dabelea@ucdenver.edu

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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