Twin study to uncover hidden environmental health risks
NCT ID NCT07408973
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study will follow 120 women with twin pregnancies and their 240 children to see how environmental exposures, lifestyle, and diet affect health at birth and during the first year of life. Researchers will collect biological samples and use models to measure exposure to pollutants. The goal is to better understand what influences early health in twins.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- What this could lead to
- If successful, this study could help identify environmental factors that influence twin pregnancy outcomes and early childhood health.
- What could go wrong
- This is an observational pilot study with no intervention, so it cannot prove cause and effect. Results may not apply to other populations.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Participants
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About 360 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Expected to start
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Dec 2026
An estimate. Start dates often move.
- Expected to finish
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Dec 2030
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
Who is studied
Any dichorionic or monochorionic twin pregnancy of more than 25 weeks' gestation, monitored at the University Hospital of Montpellier.
- Ages
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18 years and older
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Mother's inclusion Criteria: * Patient of legal age (≥ 18 years) * Patient pregnant with a twin pregnancy ≥ 25 weeks of gestation * Pregnancy initially twin, triplet, or quadruplet, progressing to a twin pregnancy after spontaneous or medical embryo reduction, or after selective termination of pregnancy * Delivery planned at Montpellier University Hospital Twins' inclusion Criteria: * Twins born in a twin pregnancy ≥ 25 weeks of gestation Mother's exclusion Criteria: * Pregnant woman with at least one fetus presenting with a chromosomal or genetic abnormality or a polymalformative syndrome, and for whom early postnatal death is anticipated. * Planned travel preventing the study from being completed * Failure to obtain informed and written consent from the patient for participation in the study and the collection of biological samples * Patient unable to read and/or write French * Patient unable to understand and/or speak French * Patient not benefiting from a national health insurance scheme * Person under legal protection, guardianship or curatorship * Person participating in other interventional research study Twins' exclusion Criteria: * Mother's absence from or withdrawal from the study * Birth in a facility other than Montpellier University Hospital * One or two children under guardianship * Lack of informed and written consent from legal representatives * One of the two fetuses is expected to die * Lack of informed and written consent from the prospective parent(s) for participation in the study and the collection of biological samples * Parents unable to read and/or write French * Parents not understanding and/or speaking French
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