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
Country
Year of first data collection
2010
Primary Institutions
Colorado School of Public Health
University of Colorado Denver (CU Denver)
Links
Profile paper DOI
Funders
American Heart Association (AHA)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Ongoing?
Yes
Data types collected


Engagement
Keywords
Consortia and dataset groups