ArticleInternational journal of circumpolar health2013
Seasonality and ambient temperature at time of conception in term-born individuals - influences on cardiovascular disease and obesity in adult life.
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- Impacts of heat exposure in utero on long-term health and social outcomes: a systematic review.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2024Pooled it
- A systematic review on the association of month and season of birth with future anthropometric measures.Pediatric research · 2021Pooled it
- Multiple Environmental Exposures and the Development of Hypertension in a Prospective US-Based Cohort of Female Nurses: A Mixture Analysis.Environmental science & technology · 2024Article
- Long-Term Survival after Coronary Artery Surgical Revascularization-Does Ambient Temperature Matter?Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2024Article
- Seasonality and Sex-Biased Fluctuation of Birth Weight in Tibetan Populations.Phenomics (Cham, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Maternal exposure to cold spells during pregnancy is associated with higher blood pressure and hypertension in offspring later in life.Journal of clinical hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.) · 2020Article
- The Effects of Season of Birth on the Inflammatory Response to Psychological Stress in Hainan Island, China.PloS one · 2015Article
- The associations of month of birth with body mass index, waist circumference, and leg length: findings from the China Kadoorie Biobank of 0.5 million adults.Journal of epidemiology · 2015Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe influence of environmental conditions early in life - including temperature and season - on health later in life has so far not attracted much attention.
objectiveUsing data from the Helsinki Birth Cohort Study of 13,345 men and women, the influence of temperature and season at month of conception on birth weight, and on cardiovascular diseases and obesity-related traits in later life was studied.
designLinear regressions were fitted to examine the relationship between birth weight/obesity-related variables/hypertension and alternatively month of conception and average temperature of month of conception. The incidence of both coronary heart disease and cerebrovascular disease was assumed to follow a Weibull hazard model, and was modelled accordingly using survival analysis techniques.
resultsIn women, unusually cold temperatures at month of conception predicted lower body mass index (BMI) and fat percentage, and protected from obesity. Warmer temperatures at month of conception were associated with higher risk for hypertension. In men, warmer temperatures around conception predicted lower BMI. No seasonal influences were detected on obesity-related variables, nor were there seasonal or temperature mediated influences on birth weight, coronary heart disease or cerebrovascular disease observed.
conclusionsWe suggest that ambient temperature has an influence on obesity-related outcomes and hypertension. This merits further study, also with regard to other health outcomes and from a global perspective.
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