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

Description

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.

Conditions

Pregnancy, Obesity

Study Overview

Study Details

Study 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.

Exploring the Fuel-mediated Programming of Neonatal Growth

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

Condition
Pregnancy
Intervention / Treatment

-

Contacts and Locations

Aurora

University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, Colorado, United States, 80045

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

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Eligibility Criteria

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

Ages Eligible for Study

16 Years to

Sexes Eligible for Study

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Collaborators and Investigators

University of Colorado, Denver,

Dana Dabelea, MD, PhD, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, University of Colorado, Denver

Study Record Dates

2026-07