Well I owuld hope so. And I would also hope that if they do so that they ask
appropriate questions in order to get meaningful answers. Who has the
contacts to follow through with ensuring that this is the case?
Karleen Gribble
Australia
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Judy Ritchie" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 6:00 PM
Subject: Large US child study to be funded


Wonder if they will track children as breastfed vs formula fed?
Judy Ritchie

http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/metro/stories/MYSA100507.State.childrenshea
lth.34c306f.html

http://tinyurl.com/yq6h2d

One thousand San Antonio children would be followed from the womb - and in
some cases, from conception - to their 21st birthday as part of the biggest
and most ambitious study ever to look at children's health and well-being,
federal health officials announced Thursday.

The National Children's Study is designed to track 100,000 American children
to adulthood to answer dozens of questions about what social and
environmental factors - from diet to pesticide exposures to television
viewing - combine with genetic risk to contribute to a host of health
problems, among them birth defects, autism, asthma, obesity, diabetes,
mental illness and traumatic injury.

The study design calls for eventually selecting 100,000 children from 105
U.S. communities. If the entire study is funded over 25 or so years, it
could cost $3.2 billion.

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