University of Colorado, Denver
The purpose of this study is to establish and follow longitudinally a cohort of ethnically diverse pregnant women and their offspring, in order to explore the hypothesis that fetal over-nutrition is associated with obesity, metabolic, and cardiovascular abnormalities in the offspring.
Inclusion Criteria: * Pregnant women and infants * Prior to 23 completed weeks of gestation * Live in Colorado Exclusion Criteria: * Multiple gestation * Preexisting * cancer * psychiatric disease * steroid-dependent asthma, or * diabetes * Previous premature delivery prior to 25 weeks gestation or fetal demise