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ReviewChildren (Basel, Switzerland)2023

Early Life Stress (ELS) Effects on Fetal and Adult Bone Development.

Xena Giada Pappalardo, Gianluca Testa, Rosalia Pellitteri, Paola Dell'Albani, Margherita Rodolico, Vito Pavone, Enrico Parano

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Review in Children (Basel, Switzerland), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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8citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Early-life famine exposure and risk of osteoporosis and low bone mineral density: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA · 2025
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  8. Effects of stress on bone health in children.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Xena Giada PappalardoInstitute for Biomedical Research and Innovation, Italian National Research Council, 95123 Catania, Italy.
Gianluca TestaDepartment of General Surgery and Medical Surgical Specialties, Section of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Hospital Policlinico "Rodolico-San Marco", University of Catania, 95123 Catania, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-5246-9714
Rosalia PellitteriInstitute for Biomedical Research and Innovation, Italian National Research Council, 95123 Catania, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-1551-5467
Paola Dell'AlbaniInstitute for Biomedical Research and Innovation, Italian National Research Council, 95123 Catania, Italy.
Margherita RodolicoInstitute for Biomedical Research and Innovation, Italian National Research Council, 95123 Catania, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-6878-9779
Vito PavoneDepartment of General Surgery and Medical Surgical Specialties, Section of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Hospital Policlinico "Rodolico-San Marco", University of Catania, 95123 Catania, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-5664-8066
Enrico ParanoInstitute for Biomedical Research and Innovation, Italian National Research Council, 95123 Catania, Italy.
Institute for Biomedical Research and Innovation · ITUniversity of Catania · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Early life stress (ELS) refers to harmful environmental events (i.e., poor maternal health, metabolic restraint, childhood trauma) occurring during the prenatal and/or postnatal period, which may cause the 'epigenetic corruption' of cellular and molecular signaling of mental and physical development. While the impact of ELS in a wide range of human diseases has been confirmed, the ELS susceptibility to bone diseases has been poorly explored. In this review, to understand the potential mediating pathways of ELS in bone diseases, PRISMA criteria were used to analyze different stress protocols in mammal models and the effects elicited in dams and their progeny. Data collected, despite the methodological heterogeneity, show that ELS interferes with fetal bone formation, also revealing that the stress type and affected developmental phase may influence the variety and severity of bone anomalies. Interestingly, these findings highlight the maternal and fetal ability to buffer stress, establishing a new role for the placenta in minimizing ELS perturbations. The functional link between ELS and bone impairments will boost future investigations on maternal stress transmission to the fetus and, parallelly, help the assessment of catch-up mechanisms of skeleton adaptations from the cascading ELS effects.

Indexed as

bone developmentchild abuse and maltreatmentearly life stress (ELS)epigeneticsgeneticsmaternal stressosteoporosisperinatal stresspostnatal stressprenatal stress

Identifiers

PMID36670652
PMCPMC9856960
OpenAlexW4313583152

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