Environmental influences on child health outcomes: cohorts of individuals born very preterm.

ABSTRACT: The National Institutes of Health's Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Program was designed to address solution-oriented research questions about the links between children's early life environment and their risks of pre-, peri-, and post-natal complications, asthma, obesity, neurodevelopmental disorders, and positive health. Children born very preterm are at increased risk for many of the outcomes on which ECHO focuses, but the contributions of environmental factors to this risk are not well characterized. Three ECHO cohorts consist almost exclusively of individuals born very preterm. Data provided to ECHO from cohorts can be used to address hypotheses about (1) differential risks of chronic health and developmental conditions between individuals born very preterm an

SUBMITTER: O'Shea TM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9363858 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature