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Focus on Preterm Birth and Psychiatric Disorders
Pregnant women are advised to avoid certain exposures that lead to preterm birth and may increase the likelihood of psychiatric disease later in life. NICUs must be mindful and reduce exposure to those developmental neurotoxicants known to cause developmental disturbances. The articles cited here address many of these issues.
Image: S Sparrow, J R Manning et al. Epigenomic profiling of preterm infants reveals DNA methylation differences at sites associated with neural function -
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Focus on Childhood Obesity
The Focus on Childhood Obesity summarizes the primary themes of research surrounding obesity, specifically the research that is not solely focused on nutrition, as recently published in Pediatric Research and the International Journal of Obesity. The themes have been grouped into three areas: (1) basic and translational mechanisms, (2) socioeconomic and lifestyle correlates, and (3) xenobiotics.