SchaferAutismReport: 21-Year Study of Children Set to Begin

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21-Year Study of Children Set to Begin

By Kate in the NY Times. Note:

We reprinted a similar report on this research in early October is.gd/3v6F . This one has more details.

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After nearly a decade of planning,

researchers will begin recruiting pregnant women in January for an

ambitious nationwide study that will follow more than 100,000 children from

before birth until age 21.

The goal of the federally financed project,

the National Children’s Study, is to gain a better understanding of the

effects of a wide array of factors on children’s health.

“What we are doing is bold and needs to be

bold in order to answer some pressing questions,” said the study’s

director, Dr. C. Scheidt, a pediatrician on the staff of the

child-health division of the National Institutes of Health.

Investigators hope to find explanations for

the rising rates of premature births, childhood obesity, cancer, autism,

endocrine disorders and behavioral problems. To that end, they will examine

factors like genetics and child rearing, geography, exposure to chemicals,

nutrition and pollution.

While few quarrel with the goal, some

experts worry that the expansive project will take resources away from

smaller and more focused perinatal and pediatric research, particularly

when budgets are certain to be strained by the financial crisis. The total

cost is estimated to be $2.7 billion.

Participating mothers and children (fathers

will be encouraged but not required to take part) will be given periodic

interviews and questionnaires. They will further be asked to submit samples

of blood, urine and hair. Air, water and dust from their environments will

also be sampled and tested.

“Something like this has never been done in

this country,” said a principal investigator for the study, Dr. Philip J.

Landrigan, professor and chairman of community and preventive medicine at

Mount Sinai School of Medicine in Manhattan. “It’s past time for us to do

this. "

Studies of comparable size and scope are

under way in Britain, Denmark and Norway.

Conceived during the Clinton administration

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