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Maternal pre-pregnancy body mass index is associated with newborn offspring hypothalamic mean diffusivity: a prospective dual-cohort study

open access: yesBMC Medicine, 2023
Background An extensive body of animal literature supports the premise that maternal obesity during pregnancy can alter the development of the fetal hypothalamus (HTH, a critical regulator of energy balance) with implications for offspring obesity risk ...
Jerod M. Rasmussen   +10 more
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Association Between the COVID-19 Pandemic and Infant Neurodevelopment: A Comparison Before and During COVID-19

open access: yesFrontiers in Pediatrics, 2021
Aim: To investigate the association between the experience of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and neurodevelopment of 6-month-old and 1-year-old children and explore the differences in the association by birth order.Methods: This ...
Peiyuan Huang   +24 more
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Parental divorce in childhood does not independently predict maternal depressive symptoms during pregnancy

open access: yesBMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2020
Background This study sought to investigate if parental divorce in childhood increases the risk for depressive symptoms in pregnancy. Methods Women were recruited during their ultrasound screening in gestational week (gwk) 12.
Elviira Porthan   +6 more
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Cohort profile: the avon longitudinal study of parents and children: ALSPAC mothers cohort [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The Avon Longitudinal Study of Children and Parents (ALSPAC) was established to understand how genetic and environmental characteristics influence health and development in parents and children.
A. Boyd   +50 more
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Cohort profile: The Tromso Study [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Epidemiology, 2011
The Tromso Study was initiated in 1974 in an attempt to help combat the high mortality of cardiovascular diseases in Norway, that was particularly pronounced among middle-aged men. In the mid-1970s, Norwegian men had a 20% risk of dying of myocardial infarction (MI) before the age of 75 years. The situation in Northern Norway was even worse.
Jacobsen, Bjarne Koster   +4 more
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Patient-reported healthcare expectations in inflammatory bowel diseases. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
BACKGROUND: Patient-reported experience is an important component of a holistic approach to quality of care. Patients' expectations of treatments and global disease management may indicate their illness representations and their satisfaction and hopes ...
Carla Vaucher   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Sleep during infancy, inhibitory control and working memory in toddlers: findings from the FinnBrain cohort study

open access: yesSleep Science and Practice, 2021
Background Sleep difficulties are associated with impaired executive functions (EFs) in school-aged children. However, much less is known about how sleep during infancy relates to EF in infants and toddlers.
Isabel Morales-Muñoz   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Outcomes in Cohort Studies [PDF]

open access: yesEpidemiologic Reviews, 1998
The initial intellectual appeal of the cohort design for epidemiologic studies stems from the obvious fact that the method of subject selection leaves little doubt about the temporal relation between the exposure and the disease whose relation is under study.
openaire   +3 more sources

What are cohort studies? [PDF]

open access: yesEvidence Based Nursing, 2019
In 1951, Richard Doll and Austin Bradford-Hill commenced a ground-breaking research project by writing to all registered doctors in the UK to ask about their smoking habits. The British Doctors Study recruited and followed-up over 40 000 participants, monitoring mortality rates and causes of death over the subsequent years and decades. Even by the time
Barrett, David, Noble, Helen
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Birth weight changes in a major city under rapid socioeconomic transition in China

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2017
Estimates of trends in birth weight may be useful in evaluating population health. We aimed to determine whether temporal changes in birth weight have occurred amongst 2.3 million neonates born in Guangzhou, China, during 2001–2015 and investigate the ...
Jian-Rong He   +14 more
doaj   +1 more source

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