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- New ECHO Research Study Relationship Between Maternal Education and Children’s Neurocognitive Development Over Time February 27, 2024Collaborative ECHO research led by Santiago Morales, PhD of the University of Southern California investigates the relationship between maternal education and children’s neurocognitive development over time. This research, titled “Maternal Education Prospectively Predicts Child Neurocognitive Function: An ECHO Study,” is published in Developmental Psychology. ECHO researchers wanted to examine the relationship between changes in a mother’s education over time and their ...
- New ECHO Study Finds No Statistically Significant Associations Between Small Molecules During Pregnancy and Childhood BMI February 26, 2024Collaborative ECHO research led by Rachel Kelly, PhD and Nicole Prince, PhD, of Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, and Donghai Liang, PhD, MPH of Emory University analyzes the relationship between small molecules in a mother’s blood during pregnancy and childhood BMI. This research, titled “Metabolomic Data Presents Challenges for Epidemiological Meta-Analysis: A Case Study of Childhood Body ...
- ECHO Researchers Find Link Between Phthalate Exposure and Preterm Birth, Estimate Potential Costs February 19, 2024Collaborative ECHO research led by Leonardo Trasande, MD, MPP of NYU Langone Health investigates the potential connections between phthalates, their metabolites in the urine of pregnant individuals, and birth outcomes. This research, titled “Prenatal phthalate exposure and adverse birth outcomes in the USA: a prospective analysis of births and estimates of attributable burden and costs,” is published in The Lancet ...
- New ECHO Research Highlights Gaps in Literature Studying Role of Fathers in Child Development February 2, 2024Collaborative ECHO research led by Elena Jansen, PhD of Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and Kristine Marceau, PhD of the College of Health and Human Sciences at Purdue University reviewed existing literature on what is known about a father’s role in child development, highlighting how a father’s history and personal characteristics can influence their child’s health and wellbeing. This research, ...
- New ECHO Research Finds No Association Between Arsenic Exposure and Birth Outcomes December 15, 2023Collaborative ECHO research led by Jonathan Lewis, MHS, Emily Knapp, PhD, MHS, and Amii Kress, PhD, MPH of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health investigates the relationship between arsenic exposure and certain birth outcomes. This research, titled “Associations Between Area-Level Arsenic Exposure and Adverse Birth Outcomes: An ECHO-Wide Cohort Analysis,” is published in Environmental Research. Researchers captured proxy exposure to ...
- ECHO Research Explores Potential Value of Nutrition Data Collected from Pregnancy Through Adolescence for Understanding Child Health December 1, 2023Collaborative ECHO research led by Megan Bragg, PhD, RD and Kristen Lyall, ScD of the A.J. Drexel Autism Institute highlights the opportunity for researchers to access the large amount of diet information already collected from the ECHO Cohort. This research, titled “Opportunities for examining child health impacts of early-life nutrition in the ECHO Program: Maternal and child dietary intake data ...
- New ECHO Research Characterizes Children Born Preterm into Four Neurobehavioral Profiles Based on a Combination of Health Outcomes November 10, 2023Collaborative ECHO research led by Marie Camerota, PhD of the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University studies the health outcomes of children born preterm and characterizes them into four neurobehavioral profiles. This research, titled “Neurodevelopmental and behavioral outcomes of very preterm infants: latent profile analysis in the Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Program,” is published in Pediatric ...
- ECHO Researchers Evaluate New Scale for Measuring Pandemic-related Traumatic Stress in Children and Adults November 3, 2023Collaborative ECHO research led by Courtney K. Blackwell, PhD of Northwestern University evaluated COVID-19 pandemic-related traumatic stress in a large sample of children and adults. In March 2020, ECHO researchers developed the Pandemic-related Traumatic Stress Scale (PTSS) to measure stress related to the COVID-19 pandemic. The PTSS can be used to identify children and adults with higher levels of traumatic ...
- New ECHO Research Finds No Link Between “Accelerated” Biological Age and Behavioral and Emotional Health Outcomes in Children October 31, 2023Collaborative ECHO research led by Christine Ladd-Acosta, PhD and Heather Volk, PhD, MPH, of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, investigates the association between accelerated biological age at birth and children’s health outcomes. This research, titled “Accelerated epigenetic age at birth and child emotional and behavioral development in early childhood: A meta-analysis of four prospective cohort studies in ECHO,” ...
- New ECHO Cohort Research Finds Some Teens with Disabilities May Have Been More Vulnerable to Social Disruptions During COVID-19 Pandemic October 30, 2023Collaborative ECHO Cohort research led by Phillip Sherlock, PhD; Maxwell Mansolf, PhD; and Courtney Blackwell, PhD of Northwestern University investigates the COVID-19 pandemic’s impacts on adolescents’ mental health. The findings suggest that some teens with a history of depression, anxiety, autism and ADHD experienced more severe impacts than those without. This research, titled “Life Satisfaction for Adolescents with Developmental and ...
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July 13, 2022 at 1pm ET: Join Barry M Lester for Newborn Neurobehavior Predicts 2 Year Developmental Outcome in Preterm Infants
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