NCT00043498

Health Effects of Early-Life Exposure to Urban Pollutants in Minority Children

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 727 (actual)
• Sponsor: National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) · NIH
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years – 35 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

A molecular epidemiologic study of African American and Hispanic mothers and newborns to investigate the role of common urban pollutants on procarcinogenic and developmental damage.

Detailed description

The major objective of the proposed research is to study the impact of early-life exposures to common urban pollutants on neurobehavioral development and asthma in a sample of children living in three low-income, minority communities of New York City (Central Harlem, Washington Heights and the South Bronx). Using a molecular epidemiologic approach with monitoring, biomarkers, and clinical assessments at serial time points, we will extend our study of African-American and Latina urban mothers and children in order to follow the cohort through child age 11 years to assess the longer-term impact of exposures on child health and developmental outcomes.

Conditions

• Asthma
• Development

Timeline

• Start date: 1997-08-01
• Primary completion: 2013-05-01
• Completion: 2013-05-01
• First posted: 2002-08-12
• Last updated: 2014-10-15

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States