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Humans are not unique: difficult birth is common in placental mammals

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Human childbirth is widely presumed to be uniquely difficult and dangerous compared to birth in other mammals. Tight fetopelvic proportions can result in obstructed labour and contribute to high rates of maternal and neonatal mortality. Ideas summarised under the ‘obstetrical dilemma’ have contributed to this assumption by explaining difficult
Nicole D. S. Grunstra
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On the importance of including both sexes in animal studies – insights from home‐cage monitoring

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A review of behavioural studies using home‐cage monitoring (HCM) systems revealed that over 61% of studies used only male subjects, with only 24% including both sexes, despite evidence of substantial behavioural differences between male and female animals. This bias could influence the outcomes of biomedical research.
Maša Čater, Adam Dušek, Aleksandra Bartelik, Silvia Mandillo, Elisabetta Golini, Mara Rigamonti, Rasneer Sonia Bains, Hamish Forrest, Marion Rivalan, Melissa Long, Anna Kiryk, Lars Lewejohann, Nuno Henrique Franco   +12 more
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Multidimensional determinants of malnutrition among under five children in western India

Discover Public Health
Background Child undernutrition remains a major public health challenge in India despite multiple nutrition programs. Emerging evidence suggests that beyond dietary factors, maternal mental health, environmental, and digital vulnerabilities also ...
Krishna Jasani, Neel Aghera
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A British Pharmacological Society Position Statement on Medications in Pregnancy and Lactation

British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, EarlyView.
Agnesa Mustafa, Cleodie C. Swire, Reya V. Shah, Bernadette Jenner, Rory H. McLean, Muhammad Shamsher Ahmed, Adrie Bekker, Julia Zöllner, Rachel K. Scott, Robert R. Bies, Sara K. Quinney, Dagan O. Lonsdale, Emma Forton Magavern, Catriona Waitt, Anita Banerjee   +14 more
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Evidence for adaptive explanations of semelparity in animals

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Semelparity, the reproductive strategy of reproducing once, is widespread but uncommon in animals. Classes of models to explain the evolution of semelparity are based either on age structure and mortality schedules – demographic models in which high post‐reproductive mortality risk favours high reproductive effort and semelparity results from ...
Diana O. Fisher, Roberto Salguero‐Gómez   +1 more
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Impact of maternal risk factors on ethnic disparities in maternal mortality: a national population-based cohort studyResearch in context

The Lancet Regional Health. Europe
Summary: Background: Ethnic disparities in maternal mortality are consistently reported. This study aimed to investigate the contribution of known risk factors including age, socioeconomic status, and medical comorbidities to observed ethnic disparities
Nicola Vousden, Kathryn Bunch, Sara Kenyon, Jennifer J. Kurinczuk, Marian Knight   +4 more
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How developmental stressors affect mitochondrial respiratory function: a systematic review and meta‐analysis

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The environmental conditions organisms experience during early development can have powerful and sustained effects on morphology, physiology, behaviour, and performance. Such developmental effects can influence reproductive success, survival, and life‐history strategies and can be transmitted across generations (i.e.
Ondi L. Crino, Christopher R. Friesen, Geoffrey E. Hill, Dalton C. Leibold, Pablo Recio, Karine Salin, Kristoffer H. Wild, Daniel W.A. Noble   +7 more
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Family's socioeconomic and demographic factors on elements of children's dental and oral health: A scoping review

Clinical and Experimental Dental Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Family plays a significant role in children's dental and oral health (DOH) elements, such as children's DOH knowledge and practice, the development of children's dental fear and anxiety (DFA), children's dental visits, and children's DOH status.
Wisnu Fadila, Mugia B. Rahardja, Puguh Prasetyoputra, Anne A. Suwargiani, Yanu E. Prasetyo, Eriska Riyanti   +5 more
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Retrospective cohort study of the association between socioeconomic deprivation and incidence of gestational diabetes and perinatal outcomes

BMC Public Health
Introduction Socioeconomic disparities have been shown to correlate with perinatal mortality and the incidence of type 2 diabetes. Few studies have explored the relationship between deprivation and the incidence of gestational diabetes (GDM). We aimed to
Srirangan Jeyaparam, Rochan Agha-Jaffar, Edward Mullins, Ana-Catarina Pinho-Gomes, Kamlesh Khunti, Stephen Robinson   +5 more
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Digital and Gender Attributes of IC in Sustainability Reporting of Italian Firms

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Italian listed enterprises increasingly rely on intellectual capital (IC) to enhance competitiveness and sustainability performance. As IC, comprising human, structural, and relational capital, is rarely recognised in financial statements due to the lack of standardised frameworks, its disclosure has gained relevance in sustainability ...
Alessandra Buonasera, Simona Catuogno
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