Largest study of US children to begin in January
The largest study of U.S. children ever performed — aiming to track 100,000 from conception to age 21 — will go ahead with recruiting mothers-to-be in North Carolina and New York in January.
The ambitious National Children's Study aims to cram how the environment and added factors induce youngsters' state, supremely development of such conditions as autism, asthma, learning disabilities, diabetes and obesity. Scientists will examine a range of factors, from the diets of pregnant women and young children to the effects of chemicals used in plastics.
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