TY - JOUR
T1 - The national children's study
T2 - A golden opportunity to advance the health of pregnant women
AU - Lyerly, Anne Drapkin
AU - Little, Margaret Olivia
AU - Faden, Ruth R.
PY - 2009/10/1
Y1 - 2009/10/1
N2 - With a $3 billion investment by the federal government, the National Children's Study (NCS) recently began recruitment. The NCS is a golden - and potentially missed - opportunity to study one of the most underrepresented populations in clinical research: pregnant women. As the nation's largest-ever study of children's health, the NCS will examine the effects of the environment on children from before birth to 21 years of age, with participants sampled primarily through women during pregnancy. Thus the NCS presents a rare opportunity to study the health of women during and after pregnancy, in addition to the health of their children. On both moral and policy grounds, we make the case for inclusion of women's health outcomes in the NCS.
AB - With a $3 billion investment by the federal government, the National Children's Study (NCS) recently began recruitment. The NCS is a golden - and potentially missed - opportunity to study one of the most underrepresented populations in clinical research: pregnant women. As the nation's largest-ever study of children's health, the NCS will examine the effects of the environment on children from before birth to 21 years of age, with participants sampled primarily through women during pregnancy. Thus the NCS presents a rare opportunity to study the health of women during and after pregnancy, in addition to the health of their children. On both moral and policy grounds, we make the case for inclusion of women's health outcomes in the NCS.
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U2 - 10.2105/AJPH.2009.165498
DO - 10.2105/AJPH.2009.165498
M3 - Comment/debate
C2 - 19592606
AN - SCOPUS:70349117612
SN - 0090-0036
VL - 99
SP - 1742
EP - 1745
JO - American journal of public health
JF - American journal of public health
IS - 10
ER -