NCT03217656

The Jiaxing Birth Cohort in China

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 500,000 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Zhejiang University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The Jiaxing Birth Cohort (JBC) is the largest prospective cohort study to explore prenatal risk factors, early life feeding practice and growth pattern/ adiposity in Chinese children.Between 1999 and 2013, 338 413 mother-child pairs were recruited in Jiaxing area in south-east China.Children of the recruited women were followed up at 1-2, 3, 6, 9 and 12 months of age, and subsequently followed up every 6 months to 36 months of age (toddler stage), and every year to 6-7 years of age before they went to school (pre-school stage). Follow-up rate was 70.8% at the toddler stage and 68.9% at the pre-school stage up to June 2013.

Conditions

• Childhood Obesity
• Anemia
• Pregnancy Complications
• Pregnancy; Hypertension
• Feeding Behavior

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	No intervention

Timeline

• Start date: 1999-01-01
• Primary completion: 2019-01-01
• Completion: 2029-01-01
• First posted: 2017-07-14
• Last updated: 2018-01-23

Locations

1 site across 1 country: China