NCT04174521

Association Between Mother and Child Weight Gain: Statistical Methods With Validation

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 20,670 (actual)
• Sponsor: Vanderbilt University Medical Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 0 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Using retrospective data from the Vanderbilt University Medical Center electronic health record, the investigators will study the association between mother's weight / weight change before and during pregnancy and the development of childhood obesity up until 5 years of age.

Detailed description

The investigators are extracting de-identified retrospective data from the Vanderbilt University Medical Center electronic health record for mother-child pairs. From this data, the investigators will study the association between mother weight change during pregnancy and the risk of her child developing obesity during the first 5 years of life. Included mothers must have at least one weight measurement and at least one height measurement; they must have at least one child with weight/length measurements at birth and one additional same day height/weight measurement at or before 5 years of age.

Conditions

• Obesity, Childhood

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-06-26
• Primary completion: 2021-08-01
• Completion: 2021-08-01
• First posted: 2019-11-22
• Last updated: 2022-01-31
• Results posted: 2022-01-31

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States