The authors used data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, a longitudinal
birth cohort study including nearly 5,000 children born between 1998 and 2000 in hospitals in 20 U.S. cities, to consider these dimensions of dynamic family structure together, asking whether they independently predict children's behavior problems at age 9.
Not exact matches
The
study was a prospective
cohort study with planned place of
birth at the start of care in labour as the exposure (home, freestanding midwifery unit, alongside midwifery unit, or obstetric unit).12 Women were
included in the group in which they planned to give
birth at the start of care in labour regardless of whether they were transferred during labour or immediately after
birth.
Most
studies of homebirth in other countries have found no statistically significant differences in perinatal outcomes between home and hospital
births for women at low risk of complications.36, 37,39 However, a recent
study in the United States showed poorer neonatal outcomes for
births occurring at home or in
birth centres.40 A meta - analysis in the same year demonstrated higher perinatal mortality associated with homebirth41 but has been strongly criticised on methodological grounds.5, 42 The Birthplace in England
study, 43 the largest prospective
cohort study on place of
birth for women at low risk of complications, analysed a composite outcome, which
included stillbirth and early neonatal death among other serious morbidity.
Respiratory and gastrointestinal tract infections are the leading cause of morbidity in children.1, 2 Prospective
cohort studies in industrialized countries revealed a prevalence of 3.4 % to 32.1 % for respiratory tract infectious diseases and 1.2 % to 26.3 % for gastrointestinal infectious diseases in infancy.3, — , 8 The risks of these infectious diseases are affected by several factors
including birth weight, gestational age, socioeconomic status, ethnicity, number of siblings, day care attendance, and parental smoking.3, 5,6,8, — , 20
Therefore, future
birth cohort studies examining the incidence of atopic disease need to directly compare infants fed hydrolyzed (
including both partially and extensively hydrolyzed formulas) and nonhydrolyzed formulas to exclusively breast - fed infants for a prolonged period.
Design, Setting, and Participants
Included were infants from singleton
births of pregnant women enrolled in the New Hampshire
Birth Cohort Study from 2011 to 2014 whose parents were interviewed during their first year of life.
Our
study included 951 of 984 infants (96.6 %) delivered to mothers enrolled in the New Hampshire Birth Cohort Study from February 2011 to October 2014 who consented for the follow - up compo
study included 951 of 984 infants (96.6 %) delivered to mothers enrolled in the New Hampshire
Birth Cohort Study from February 2011 to October 2014 who consented for the follow - up compo
Study from February 2011 to October 2014 who consented for the follow - up component.
The current
study included 759 infants born to mothers in the New Hampshire Birth Cohort Study from 2011 to
study included 759 infants born to mothers in the New Hampshire
Birth Cohort Study from 2011 to
Study from 2011 to 2014.
The
study utilized the McMaster Extremely Low
Birth Weight (ELBW) Cohort, which includes a group of 179 extremely low birth weight survivors and 145 normal birth weight controls born between 1977 and 1982, which has 40 years» worth of
Birth Weight (ELBW)
Cohort, which
includes a group of 179 extremely low
birth weight survivors and 145 normal birth weight controls born between 1977 and 1982, which has 40 years» worth of
birth weight survivors and 145 normal
birth weight controls born between 1977 and 1982, which has 40 years» worth of
birth weight controls born between 1977 and 1982, which has 40 years» worth of data.
Our
study has several strengths despite the limitations,
including population - based identification of cases from a large
birth cohort and the use of prospectively collected information on influenza infection and vaccination documented in medical records.
This was confirmed by a meta - analysis,
including 15
cohort studies and 7 case - control
studies, where no important association between caffeine intake during pregnancy and the risk of preterm
birth was observed17.
To be
included in the analyses,
study members must have completed psychiatric interviews in both childhood (at ages 11, 13, or 15 years) and adulthood (at ages 18, 21, or 26 years); 998
study members (96 % of the
birth cohort) met this criterion.
Recently, a research team from Denmark performed a large population - based and register - based prospective
cohort study to shed further light on this compelling issue.13 Researchers
included only singleton
births in a 10 - year period, and excluded conditions associated with an increased risk of ASDs (eg, congenital rubella syndrome or some genetic disorders in parents).
998
study participants (96 % of the
birth cohort) completed ≥ 2 psychiatric interviews at ages 11, 13, or 15 years and at 18, 21, or 26 years, and were
included in the analysis.
The most recent follow - up
study reported associations between duration of breastfeeding and childhood cognitive ability and academic achievement extending from 8 to 18 years in a New Zealand
cohort of 1000 children.19 This
study found that these effects were significant after controlling for measures of social and family history,
including maternal age, education, SES, marital status, smoking during pregnancy, family living conditions, and family income, and measures of perinatal factors,
including gender,
birth weight, child's estimated gestational age, and
birth order in the family.
The inflow and outflow of children in NSW from
birth to school age,
including the potential school starter and the school starter populations for 2009 and 2012, and the main
study cohort.
In summary, the total
study population
includes the previously defined potential school starter population (for 2009 and 2012) and the NSW school starter population in 2009 and 2012 (figure 2), with the
study cohort referring to children who have data available from
birth to school age.
Secondary outcomes of interest
include pregnancy and
birth outcomes for Aboriginal mothers and babies in the
study cohort,
including: numbers of pregnant Aboriginal women who had their first antenatal visit before 20 weeks gestation; number of pregnant Aboriginal women who were smoking during the second half of their pregnancy; numbers of Aboriginal infants who were born preterm (less than 37 weeks gestation), with a low
birth weight (less than 2500 g), small for gestational age and large for gestational age.