Antecedents of Obesity: Fetal Measures of Adiposity (FEMA)

Utah System of Higher Education (USHE)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Obesity

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00715754

18858

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this research is to study whether fetal biometrics obtained by 2-D ultrasound can predict infant adiposity by air displacement plethysmography at birth.

Enrollment: 47 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 24 to 72 hours old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Infants of mothers between the ages of 18 and 45, planning child birth at the University of Utah Hospital, and willing to provide parental permission for the child to participate in the study.

Exclusion criteria

• Infants of mothers under the age of 18, over the age of 45, planning child birth at another facility other than the University of Utah Hospital, or who are not willing to provide permission for the child to participate in the study.