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.
Eligibility
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