ELGAN (Extremely Low Gestational Age Newborns)
Initiatives
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To evaluate the relationship between perinatal inflammation and neurodevelopmental impairments among individuals born extremely premature (i.e., before 28 weeks of gestation). In the proposed project we will build on the success of the ELGAN Study by adding new information about:
1. environment exposures
2. neurodevelopmental outcomes of study participants at 15 and 18 years of age
3. placental epigenetic variation, a mechanism that could link inflammation early in life to neurodevelopmental impairments.
- Start Year
- 2002
- Funding
- National Institutes of Health (NIH)
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Design
- Study design
- Population cohort
- Follow Up
- ELGAN researchers have followed over one thousand children born at least 3 months early between 2002 and 2004 at 14 different hospitals in five states. We assessed these premature babies at birth and again when they were two and ten years old. In the first few weeks after birth, when the babies had routine blood tests, we saved a drop or two for later testing. Through analyzing these saved blood samples, we learned that children who had signs of sustained inflammation in their blood were more likely to have development problems when they were 2 and 10 years old.
Recruitment
- Sources of Recruitment
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- Families
Number of participants
- Number of participants
- 1,000
- Number of participants with biosamples
- Supplementary Information
- Children born at 14 different hospitals in five states.
Access
Availability of data and biosamples
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