Summary The UN Sustainable Development Goals provide a historic opportunity to
implement interventions, at scale, to promote early childhood development. Although the …

The identification of pathological links among metabolic disorders, kidney ailments, and
cardiovascular conditions has given rise to the concept of cardiovascular–kidney–metabolic …

Environmental factors can induce epigenetic alterations in the germ cells that can potentially
be transmitted transgenerationally. This non-genetic form of inheritance is termed epigenetic …

Early stages of mammalian embryonic development are now known to be very sensitive to
their microenvironment, with long term effects on fetal, postnatal, and adult health, thus …

The wide spectrum of unique needs and strengths of Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) is a
challenge for the worldwide healthcare system. With the plethora of information from …

DNA methylation can be considered a component of epigenetic memory with a critical role
during embryo development, and which undergoes dramatic reprogramming after …

There is a global epidemic of chronic kidney disease (CKD) characterized by a progressive
loss of nephrons, ascribed in large part to a rising incidence of hypertension, metabolic …

Early-life chronic exposure to environmental contaminants, such as bisphenol-A, particulate
matter air pollution, organophosphorus pesticides, and pharmaceutical drugs, among …

Abstract Background/Objectives To assess whether quality of maternal diet affects birth
weight and the risk of small for gestational age (SGA) and/or large for gestational age (LGA) …

Background According to the theory of fetal-derived adult diseases, abnormal fetal
development might affect the occurrence of diseases in adulthood, and appropriate fetal …