Description Module
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Description Module
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2025-12-25 @ 1:18 AM
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2025-12-25 @ 1:18 AM
NCT ID:
NCT03785093
Brief Summary:
There is growing evidence that microbial programming beginning in-utero can be a central component for a balanced development of innate immunity and optimal growth and development in newborns. However, the specific types of bacteria along with their cross-talk with maternal and fetal host factors are far from being clear. The investigators hypothesize microbial compositions at different body sites of pregnant women are associated with early-life microbiota of their offspring as well as growth, neurodevelopment and the development of allergic and neurocognitive disorders. This is a prospective birth cohort study involving Chinese mother-child pairs. The investigators will follow up 120 pregnant women from first trimester until childbirth, and the child until three years of age.
Detailed Description:
Our unit is one of the centres contributing to the International multicentre HAPO study. We recruited 1760 Chinese pregnant women between 2000 and 2005. The HAPO study investigated whether any adverse outcome was associated with mild degree of GDM. All mothers underwent a 75-gram OGTT at 24-32 weeks gestation, but clinicians were blinded to the results as long as the fasting PG was ≤ 5.8 mmol/L \& 2-hour PG ≤ 11.1 mmol/L. The maternal serum C-peptide and HbA1c, cord serum C-peptide and early neonatal PG, pregnancy outcome and the neonatal anthropometric parameters are available for future study. This is so far the largest cohort in a Chinese population who has been investigated for glycaemia during pregnancy, but with OGTT results remained undisclosed to subjects and clinicians. This unique cohort can allow us to study the effect of in-utero hyperglycemia on the cardiometabolic risks at childhood, adolescence and adulthood.
Eligible subjects are all mother-child pairs participating in the original HAPO study. Children born preterm before 37 weeks of gestation, non-Chinese and whose mother's OGTT result were unblinded during pregnancy will be excluded.The family (the child and the mother) will be invited for a third follow-up assessment.
Study:
NCT03785093
Study Brief:
Protocol Section:
NCT03785093