The exponential growth of pollutant discharges into the environment due to increasing
industrial and agricultural activities is a rising threat for human health and a biggest concern …

Large epidemiological and health impact assessment studies at the global scale, such as
the Global Burden of Disease project, indicate that chronic non-communicable diseases …

Currently half the world population lives in cities, and this proportion is expected to increase
rapidly to 70% over the next years. Over the years, we have created large, mostly grey cities …

Background: Chemical and nonchemical environmental exposures are increasingly
suspected to influence the development of obesity, especially during early life, but studies …

In recent years, many new studies have evaluated associations between environmental
pollutants and child health. This review aims to provide a broad summary of this literature …

Background The majority of people live in cities and urbanization is continuing worldwide.
Cities have long been known to be society's predominant engine of innovation and wealth …

Derived from the term exposure, the exposome is an omic-scale characterization of the
nongenetic drivers of health and disease. With the genome, it defines the phenome of an …

Purpose Essential to exposome research is the collection of data on many environmental
exposures from different domains in the same subjects. The aim of the Human Early Life …

While definitions vary, endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) have two fundamental
features: their disruption of hormone function and their contribution to disease and disability …

Barker's hypothesis suggests that health in adulthood can be influenced by events occurring
during the developmental period. 1 Studies from various parts of the world have shown …