Brown University and Women & Infants Hospital expand national children's study to Bris...( The National Children's Study has the p...)

Date:10/3/2008

"The National Children's Study has the potential to improve the overall health status of children, and Women & Infants is truly honored to be a part of such groundbreaking work," said Constance A. Howes, president and CEO of Women & Infants Hospital. "This expansion into Bristol County enables our researchers to look at the unique environmental factors that may impact the health and well-being of the residents of those communities."

Principal investigator of these projects is Stephen L. Buka, professor of community health at Brown and director of the Center for Population Health and Clinical Epidemiology. Co-principal investigator is Maureen G. Phipps, M.D., director of the Division of Research in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Women & Infants and associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology and community health at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.

At a national level, the National Children's Study will enroll a representative sample of 100,000 infants and follow them from before birth to age 21. Modeled after major long-term biomedical research projects such as the Women's Health Initiative, the National Children's Study takes advantage of observations unfolding over many years to better understand the development of certain diseases. Researchers hope to identify the root causes of diseases such as asthma, autism, and diabetes, as well as to gain a better understanding of injuries, birth defects, and learning, behavioral, and mental health disorders.

Locally, investigators will interview a random sample of more than 10,000 households each in Providence and Bristol counties. Recruitment is scheduled to begin in 2010.

A research team will visit families beginning in the first trimester of pregnancy or earlier. Some of these visits will be in participants' homes, and some will be in clinical settings. Data will also be collected via telephone, computer or mail-in questionnaires. Biologica
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Contact: Deborah Baum deborah_baum@brown.edu 401-863-2478 Brown University Source:Eurekalert

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