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October 2009, Vol 99, No. 10 | American Journal of Public Health 1742-1745
© 2009 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2009.165498

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The National Children's Study: A Golden Opportunity to Advance the Health of Pregnant Women

Anne Drapkin Lyerly, MD, MA, Margaret Olivia Little, PhD and Ruth R. Faden, PhD, MPH

Anne Drapkin Lyerly is with the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities, and History of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, NC. Margaret Olivia Little is with the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University, Washington, DC. Ruth R. Faden is with the Berman Institute of Bioethics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.

Correspondence: Correspondence should be sent to Anne Drapkin Lyerly, MD, MA, Duke University Medical Center Box 3040, 108 Seeley G. Mudd Bldg, Durham, NC 27710 (e-mail: LYERL003{at}mc.duke.edu). Reprints can be ordered at http://www.ajph.org by clicking on the "Reprints/Eprints" link.

With a $3 billion investment by the federal government, the National Children's Study (NCS) recently began recruitment. The NCS is a golden—and potentially missed—opportunity to study one of the most underrepresented populations in clinical research: pregnant women.

As the nation's largest-ever study of children's health, the NCS will examine the effects of the environment on children from before birth to 21 years of age, with participants sampled primarily through women during pregnancy. Thus the NCS presents a rare opportunity to study the health of women during and after pregnancy, in addition to the health of their children.

On both moral and policy grounds, we make the case for inclusion of women's health outcomes in the NCS.






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