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Sample details

Since 2009, the Healthy Start Study has followed over 1,000 ethnically diverse women to assess the impact of intrauterine exposures on neonatal outcomes. Healthy Start 1 began in 2010 with a cohort of 1,410 pregnant women who were planning on delivering at University of Colorado Hospital in the United States. Healthy Start 2 refers to the follow-up of the same children as they began turning 4, 5, and 6 years old. Then, in 2016, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded the study with the Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes, or the ECHO grant, to continue follow-up with Healthy Start mothers and children between the ages of 8 years and 12 years. Women were invited to participate in four in-person research visits: two visits during pregnancy, a third visit shortly after delivery, and a fourth visit when the child was approximately 5 months old. Denver ECHO and Colorado ECHO are waves of funding of the Healthy Start cohort.

Study design
Cohort - primary caregiver and child, Cohort - birth

Number of participants at first data collection

1,410 (pregnant women)

1,410 (children)

Age at first data collection

≥ 16 years (pregnant women)

Birth (children)

Participant year of birth

Varied (pregnant women)

2010 (children)

Participant sex
All

Representative sample at baseline?
No

Sample features

Mother and child dyad
Newborns, infants and babies
Pregnant people
Dataset details

Country

United States of America

Year of first data collection

2010

Primary Institutions

Colorado School of Public Health

University of Colorado Denver (CU Denver)

Links

healthystartstudy.org/

Funders

American Heart Association (AHA)

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Ongoing?
Yes

Data types collected

neuroImagingData
dataLinkage
Quantitative data collection
  • Computer, paper or task testing (e.g. cognitive testing, theory of mind doll task, attention computer tasks)
  • Physical or biological assessment (e.g. blood, saliva, gait, grip strength, anthropometry)
  • Secondary data
  • Self-report questionnaire – unspecified
Qualitative data collection
  • None
Neuroimaging data collection
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
Linked or secondary data
  • Medical birth registry
Features

Engagement

  • None
  • Keywords

    Biological samples/biospecimens
    Brain development
    Environmental exposures
    Human development
    Infant outcomes
    Neurocognition
    Perinatal health
    Prenatal exposures

    Consortia and dataset groups

    Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO)
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