Boston Birth Cohort Study

Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot listed
Trial typeObservational
Biological sexAll
Age0-50
SponsorJohns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

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 volunteers

Qualifiers

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

Design model

Cohort

Time perspective

Prospective

Treatments tested in this trial

Not listed

Trial groups

No trial groups listed

Trial outcomes

Primary outcomes

1

Pregnancy complications

Multiple pregnancy complications are examined including gestational diabetes, hypertensive disorders of pregnancy.

Time frame
At birth
2

Birth outcomes - preterm birth

Birth outcomes are examined - preterm birth.

Time frame
At birth
3

Birth outcomes - birthweight

Birth outcomes are examined - birthweight.

Time frame
At birth
4

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.

Time frame
From birth to 21 years

Secondary outcomes

Other 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