Early Home Visits and Health Outcomes in Low-Income Mothers and Offspring: 18-Year Follow-Up of a Randomized Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Individuals with low income may have heightened rates of obesity and hypertension.

Objective

To determine whether prenatal and infancy home visitation by nurses reduces maternal and offspring obesity and hypertension.

Design, setting, and participants

This randomized clinical trial of prenatal and infancy nurse home visitation in a public health care system in Memphis, Tennessee, enrolled 742 women with no previous live births and at least 2 sociodemographic risk factors (unmarried, <12 years of education, unemployed) from June 1, 1990, through August 31, 1991. At registration during pregnancy, 727 mothers (98%) were unmarried, and 631 (85%) lived below the federal poverty level. At offspring ages 12 and 18 years, maternal and offspring obesity and hyperten

SUBMITTER: Conti G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10797459 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature