Stress responses help us navigate our environment and respond appropriately to threats.
Stress systems communicate threats to the entire organism, and as such, also stimulate …

Psychological stress during childhood and adolescence increases risk of health problems
across the lifecourse, and inflammation is implicated as an underlying mechanism. To …

Individuals born extremely preterm are at significant risk for impaired neurodevelopment.
After discharge from the neonatal intensive care, associations between the child's well-being …

Objective To evaluate the association between added sugar intake above the daily limit for
the risk of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and the Chronic Oral Disease Burden in …

Almost one in three children globally live in households lacking basic necessities, and 356
million of these children were living in extreme poverty as of 2017. Disasters such as the …

Results Among 3421 participants at baseline (mean age 55 years [SD 13]; 63% female),
cumulative lifetime socioeconomic status ranged from− 3.3 to 2.3, and 673 (20%) had …

Dysregulation of the maternal-fetal hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis (HPAA) has been
hypothesized to negatively influence various offspring physical and mental health outcomes …

Background: Social determinants of health (SDOH) significantly influence health behaviors,
including tobacco use among youth. Adversities such as perceived discrimination, perceived …

This study used data from the 1982 Pelotas Birth Cohort Study, Brazil, to estimate the
controlled direct effect of early-life socioeconomic position (SEP) on periodontitis at age 31 …

Background In order to improve targeted therapeutic approaches for children with atopic
dermatitis (AD), novel insights into the molecular mechanisms and environmental exposures …