ReviewCurrent epidemiology reports2021
The Impact of Early-Life Exposures on Women's Reproductive Health in Adulthood.
Review in Current epidemiology reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Who cites it
7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Preconception lifestyle interventions for women-a systematic review and meta-analysis of intervention characteristics and behaviour change techniques.Human reproduction update · 2026Pooled it
- Non-invasive biomarkers in assisted reproduction: a comprehensive review for predicting IVF success.Journal of assisted reproduction and genetics · 2026Review
- GDBIG: A Pioneering Birth Cohort Genomic Platform Facilitating Intergenerational Genetic Research.Genomics, proteomics & bioinformatics · 2025Article
- Development and validation of super learner models to predict small and large for gestational age in the second generation.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Editorial: A holistic approach to adolescent oral, mental, and sexual wellness.Frontiers in oral health · 2025Article
- Interdisciplinary fetal-neonatal neurology training improves brain health across the lifespan.Frontiers in neurology · 2024Review
- Interdisciplinary fetal-neonatal neurology training applies neural exposome perspectives to neurology principles and practice.Frontiers in neurology · 2023Review
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Abstract
purpose of reviewTo review the effects of early-life, preconception, and prior-generation exposures on reproductive health in women. RECENT
findingsWomen's early-life factors can affect reproductive health by contributing to health status or exposure level on entering pregnancy. Alternately, they can have permanent effects, regardless of later-life experience. Nutrition, social class, parental smoking, other adverse childhood experiences, environmental pollutants, infectious agents, and racism and discrimination all affect reproductive health, even if experienced in childhood or in utero. Possible transgenerational effects are now being investigated through three- or more-generation studies. These effects occur with mechanisms that may include direct exposure, behavioral, endocrine, inflammatory, and epigenetic pathways. SUMMARY: Pregnancy is increasingly understood in a life course perspective, but rigorously testing hypotheses on early-life effects is still difficult. In order to improve the health outcomes of all women, we need to expand our toolkit of methods and theory. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s40471-021-00279-0.
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