Study overview
Overview
- Study title
- GARBH-INi (Interdisciplinary Group for Advanced Research on BirtH)
- Study link
- https://garbhini.thsti.in/
- Participants enrolled
- 12,000
- Lead institute
- Translational Health Science and Technology Institute (THSTI)
- Principal investigator (PI)
- Shinjini Bhatnagar (THSTI)
- Principal investigator profile
- Open profile
- Study design
- Prospective
- Location
- Haryana (Gurugram)
- Single / multiple sites
- Single Site
- Key highlights
- GARBH-Ini is a prospective hospital-based pregnancy cohort in India that follows women from early gestation through postpartum to identify multidimensional correlates including clinical, genomic, and microbial factors of preterm birth. The study integrates serial ultrasound imaging with an omics approach to develop a risk-prediction algorithm and a global biorepository for improving maternal and infant health.
- Reference paper 1
- https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwy284
Insights & criteria
Insights
- Inclusion criteria
- Pregnant women enrolled within 20 weeks of gestation
- Socio‑demographic / economic
- Rural and Peri Urban Setting and Lower-Middle socioeconomic strata
- Recruitment and timeline
- 2015-2020
- Follow‑up
- Follow-up at 11–14, 18–20, 26–28, and 30–32 weeks and once post-partum (6 weeks to 6 months after delivery)
- Keywords
- Maternal Health, Birth, Fetal Growth, Pre-term Birth
Details
Details
- Age group
- ≥21 years
- Gender
- Women
- Scope
- National
- Category
- Birth and Maternal Cohort