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

Exploring the Fuel-mediated Programming of Neonatal Growth

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.

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