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Placental Changes and Neuropsychological Development in Children-A Systematic Review.

Maria Lodefalk, Felix Chelslín, Johanna Patriksson Karlsson, Stefan R Hansson

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Synthesis in Cells, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
6citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
3.8field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Maria LodefalkDepartment of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine and Health, Örebro University, 701 82 Örebro, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-5292-4913
Felix ChelslínDepartment of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine and Health, Örebro University, 701 82 Örebro, Sweden.
Johanna Patriksson KarlssonUniversity Health Care Research Centre, Faculty of Medicine and Health, Örebro University, 701 82 Örebro, Sweden.
Stefan R HanssonDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Institute of Clinical Sciences Lund, Lund University, 221 00 Lund, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-7838-9074
Örebro University · SELund University · SE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Placental dysfunction may increase the offspring's later-life disease risk. The objective of this systematic review was to describe associations between pathological placental changes and neuropsychological outcomes in children after the neonatal period. The inclusion criteria were human studies; original research; direct placental variables; neuropsychological outcomes; and analysis between their associations. The exclusion criterion was the offspring's age-0-28 days or >19 years. The MEDLINE and EMBASE databases were last searched in May 2022. We utilized the ROBINS-I for the risk of bias assessment and performed a narrative synthesis. In total, 3252 studies were identified, out of which 16 were included (i.e., a total of 15,862 participants). Half of the studies were performed on children with neonatal complications, and 75% of the studies reported an association between a placental change and an outcome; however, following the completion of the funnel plots, a risk of publication bias was indicated. The largest study described a small association between placental size and a risk of psychiatric symptoms in boys only. Inconsistency between the studies limited the evidence in this review. In general, no strong evidence was found for an association between pathological placental changes and childhood neuropsychological outcomes after the neonatal period. However, the association between placental size and mental health in boys indicates a placental sexual dimorphism, thereby suggesting an increased vulnerability for male fetuses.

Indexed as

Mental DisordersPlacentaChildFemaleHumansInfant, NewbornMaleMental HealthPregnancyautism spectrum disorderschildhooddevelopmental origins of health and diseaselong-term outcomeneuropsychological developmentpathological lesionplacentasexual dimorphism

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PMID36766778
PMCPMC9913696
OpenAlexW4318482151

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