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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: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: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: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: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: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. 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:Occupational and Environmental Medicine (Vol. 60, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedAims: To assess the association between prenatal exposure to organochlorine compounds and thyroid status in newborns from an area with high levels of hexachlorobenzene (HCB) Methods: A total of 98 mother-infant pairs...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 15, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedA cross-sectional hypothesis generating study was performed to investigate modifiable exposures such as whether feeding pattern (a non-processed meat based diet, NPMD, or an ultra-processed carbohydrate based diet,...
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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:Nature Medicine (Vol. 24, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedIn utero gene editing has the potential to prenatally treat genetic diseases that result in significant morbidity and mortality before or shortly after birth. We assessed the viral vector-mediated delivery of...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 14, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedAim Intermittent preventive treatment in pregnancy (IPTp) with azithromycin and monthly sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine increased the mean child weight, mid-upper arm and head circumference at four weeks of age in a rural...
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From:Italian Journal of Pediatrics (Vol. 47, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedObjective Our study aimed to explore the association between maternal iron supplementation and newborn birth weight (BW) in Shaanxi Province using quantile regression (QR). Method The data used in this study were...
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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....
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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:Environmental Health Perspectives (Vol. 120, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedClaus Henn et al. (2012) addressed a "real world scenario" of exposure to multiple neurotoxic metals in their unique and interesting study. They investigated manganese--lead coexposure and its association with...
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From:Thorax (Vol. 56, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedAbstract Background--A study was undertaken to assess the interactions between prenatal exposures, early life infections, atopic predisposition, and allergen exposures in the development of wheezing up to the age of...
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From:American Philosophical Quarterly (Vol. 31, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedPrenatal existence has a more relevant bearing on life than postmortem existence. Lucretius has said that neither postmortem or prenatal states should concern living beings, as they have no bearing on existence. Others...
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From:Western Journal of Nursing Research (Vol. 19, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAs the epidemiologic Picture of HIV changes to include increased numbers of women of childbearing age, particularly those of African American heritage and those from rural southern cultures, those who provide services to...