Oxfordshire Women and Their Children's Health (OxWATCH): protocol for a prospective cohort feasibility study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Some specific pregnancy disorders are known to be associated with increased incidence of long-term maternal ill health (eg, gestational diabetes with late onset type 2 diabetes; pre-eclampsia with arterial disease). To what degree these later health conditions are a consequence of the woman's constitution prior to pregnancy rather than pregnancy itself triggering changes in a woman's health is unknown. Additionally, there is little prospective evidence for the impact of pre-pregnancy risk factors on the outcome of pregnancy. To understand the importance of pre-pregnancy health requires the recruitment of women into a long-term cohort study before their first successful pregnancy. The aim of this feasibility study is to test recruitment procedures and acceptability of p

SUBMITTER: Harrison S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4654358 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature