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The purpose of the CHAPTER study is to help understand how complications during pregnancy, such as preterm birth, affect how childrens' hearts and blood vessels develop.


Clinical Trial Description

Young adults born preterm (less than 37 weeks gestation) have alterations in the structure and function of the heart, with similar changes observed in preterm infants in the first three months of life. It is unknown whether these early changes in the heart seen in the first few months of life are relevant to long-term changes in heart structure and function. Heart changes have also not been well studied in children born preterm. To investigate this, the study will follow up children from the EPOCH study and will perform two study visits for each child (n=100 preterm and n=100 term) that will use echocardiography and cardiovascular magnetic resonance. Individuals in the EPOCH study had echocardiography measures done at birth and three months postnatal age. It will therefore be possible to do longitudinal echocardiography measures from birth up to ages 12 years to determine whether postnatal heart changes in preterm infants track into childhood. Cardiovascular magnetic resonance will allow for the determination of whether these early heart changes influence heart pump function. Finally, by measuring lung function, blood vessel structure and function, and blood pressure, it will be possible to determine how heart changes relate to other components of the cardiovascular system. This data will be used to confirm the relevance of early heart remodelling in preterm-born offspring over time and provide more comprehensive heart phenotyping for preterm-born children. Together, this information can be used to design future intervention strategies in preterm-born individuals to reduce cardiovascular risk in this growing subgroup of the population. ;


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NCT number NCT05698836
Study type Observational [Patient Registry]
Source University of Oxford
Contact
Status Enrolling by invitation
Phase
Start date March 21, 2019
Completion date June 1, 2036

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