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From:Environmental Health Perspectives (Vol. 115, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedDDT has been widely used to control mosquitoborne malaria since the late 1940s. The compound and metabolites such as p,p'-DDE linger in the environment for decades; even in areas where DDT has been banned, these...
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From:Journal of the American Dietetic Association (Vol. 92, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe nutritional status of pregnant women has been recognized as an important factor in pregnancy outcomes [1,2]. Screeninhg factors such as parity, prepregnancy weight, weight gain, and smoking have been used to assess...
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From:Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders (Vol. 48, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedThe objective of this retrospective analysis of the longitudinal Millennium Cohort Study was to examine whether maternal alcohol consumption in pregnancy (MACP) is associated with the development of childhood autism...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 16, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedOrganisms are exposed to a wealth of chemical information during their development. Some of these chemical cues indicate present or future dangers, such as the presence of predators that feed on either the developing...
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From:Archives of Women's Mental Health (Vol. 22, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIn the general population, sleeping problems can precede an episode of depression. We hypothesized that sleeping problems during pregnancy, including insomnia symptoms, shortened sleep, and daytime tiredness, are related...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedBackground Even though pregnancy does not affect HIV infection progression, HIV affects the pregnancy outcome. Maternal HIV infection has many untoward effects which include low birth weight which is the major cause of...
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From:Maternal and Child Health Journal (Vol. 18, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedEnvironmental exposures during pregnancy have a lasting impact on children's health. We combined environmental and maternal risk factor survey data to inform efforts to protect children's health. We made recommendations...
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From:Family Practice News (Vol. 36, Issue 7)SAN FRANCISCO -- The optimal time to initiate antiretroviral therapy during pregnancy depends on a balance of factors, Dr. Deborah Cohan said at a meeting on HIV management sponsored by the University of California, San...
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From:Maternal and Child Health Journal (Vol. 24, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedObjectives Children raised by depressed mothers perform lower on measures of cognitive, emotional, and behavioral skills, compared to children of non-depressed mothers. It is unclear how maternal depressive symptoms...
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From:Maternal and Child Health Journal (Vol. 24, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Eileen Dowse 1 6 , Sally Chan 3 4 7 , Lyn Ebert 1 6 , Olivia Wynne 5 , Susan Thomas 2 , Donovan Jones 1 3 8 , Shanna Fealy 1 2 4 5 8 , Tiffany-Jane Evans 1 5 , Christopher Oldmeadow 1 5 Author...
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From:CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal (Vol. 191, Issue 15) Peer-ReviewedBACKGROUND: Indicators of childhood-and youth-onset diabetes may be useful for early detection of diabetes; there is a known association between composite exposure of parental type 2 diabetes and gestational diabetes...
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From:Environmental Health Perspectives (Vol. 120, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedBACKGROUND: Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) is a potential cause of adverse pregnancy outcomes, but previous studies have been limited by low exposures and small study size. OBJECTIVES: Using birth certificate...
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From:Maternal and Child Health Journal (Vol. 25, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedObjectives Active and passive exposure to tobacco cigarettes during pregnancy is associated with multiple negative health outcomes for the fetus. In addition, exposure to e-cigarettes has been progressively discussed...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedSusceptibility to schizophrenia is mediated by genetic and environmental risk factors. Infection driven maternal immune activation (MIA) during pregnancy is a key environmental risk factor. However, little is known about...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 15, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedPregnancy offers a unique period for initiating preventive parenting interventions. Disturbances in maternal-fetal bonding may indicate suboptimal parenting and a need for intervention. However, more knowledge is needed...
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From:Human Biology (Vol. 72, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedARYEH D. STEIN [1] L.H. LUMEY [2] KEY WORDS: BIRTH WEIGHT, EPIDEMIOLOGY, FAMINE, NUTRITION, TRANSGENERATIONAL EFFECTS Abstract We examined the impact of famine-induced changes in maternal birth weight (MBW) on...
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From:Maternal and Child Health Journal (Vol. 25, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedObjectives Most studies examining psychosocial factors contributing to preterm birth (PTB) have focused on negative life events. Studies examining the influence of negative emotion, in particular maternal anger, remain...
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From:Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism (Vol. 46, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe aim of this study was to determine the relationships between maternal metabolic flexibility during pregnancy and neonatal health outcomes. Percent change in lipid oxidation (before and after a high-fat meal) was...
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From:European Journal of Clinical Nutrition (Vol. 75, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Little is known about how maternal obesity impacts breast milk (BM) composition and how BM composition may impact growth. We sought to determine the role of maternal body mass index (BMI) on BM inflammatory...
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From:Environmental Health Perspectives (Vol. 115, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedBACKGROUND: In Bangladesh, tens of millions of people have been consuming waterborne arsenic for decades. The extent to which As is transported to the fetus during pregnancy has not been well characterized....