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

University of Colorado Denver (CU Denver)

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Obesity; Pregnancy

Treatments: Other: Maternal factors

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT02273297

R01DK076648 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

09-0563

UL1TR001082 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Enrollment: 2,821 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 16+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

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

Trial design

2,821 participants in 1 patient group

Pregnant women and their offspring

Description:

Ethnically diverse pregnant women and their offspring

Treatment:

Other: Maternal factors