Largest Study On US Children Underway
Posted by Johnny | on January 14, 2009
in category: Children's Health
Researchers are beginning to recruit mothers-to-be in New York and North Carolina this week as the largest study on U.S. children is underway.
The study plans to track 100,00 children from across the country, from conception to the age 21.
A lead scientist on the project, Dr. Philip Landrigan stated, “We are embarking on the road to discovering the preventable causes of the major chronic diseases that plague American children today.”
A decade in the making, this rather ambitious National Children’s Study will attempt to understand how the environment will interact with the genetics of children throughout their youth.
