About this trial
Early life exposures may lead to adverse effects on health in later life. The Boston birth Cohort study is designed to study a broad array of early life factors and their effects on maternal and child health outcomes.
Eligibility criteria
This trial does not accept healthy volunteersQualifiers
Mothers who deliver singleton live births at Boston Medical Center are eligible for the study.
Disqualifiers
pregnancies that are a result of in vitro fertilization or that involve multiple gestations, fetal chromosomal abnormalities or major birth defects.
Trial population
US, predominantly urban, BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and people of color).
Trial design
Cohort
Prospective
Treatments tested in this trial
Not listed
Trial groups
Trial outcomes
Primary outcomes
Pregnancy complications
Multiple pregnancy complications are examined including gestational diabetes, hypertensive disorders of pregnancy.
Birth outcomes - preterm birth
Birth outcomes are examined - preterm birth.
Birth outcomes - birthweight
Birth outcomes are examined - birthweight.
Child health outcomes
Multiple child health outcomes are examined including food allergy, asthma, child's overweight or obesity, blood pressure, and child neuro-developmental outcomes.
Sponsors and contacts
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Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Lead sponsor
Boston Medical Center
Collaborator
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
Collaborator