Age-related changes in fertility have increasingly been documented in wild animal
populations: In many species the youngest and oldest reproducers are disadvantaged …

Objective To assess whether maternal ultra-processed food intake during peripregnancy
and during the child rearing period is associated with offspring risk of overweight or obesity …

Concerns for the long-term health and social well-being of teen mothers and their children
arose in the 1970s as early childbearing was depicted as a public health problem. Early …

Background The association between assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) and the
body mass index (BMI) of children remains controversial. Confounding by morbidity and …

Maternal age has a negative effect on offspring lifespan in a range of taxa and is
hypothesized to influence the evolution of aging. However, the mechanisms of maternal age …

Background: The aim of the study was to analyse the impact of mothers' gestational weight
gain (GWG) and age at birth on the long-term risk of overweight and obesity in preschool …

Female reproductive behaviours have important implications for evolutionary fitness and
health of offspring. Here we used the second release of UK Biobank data (N= 220,685) to …

Promoting birth certification is central to achieving legal identity for all-target 16.9 of the 2030
Sustainable Development Goals. Nigeria is not on track to achieve this goal with its low …

Introduction There is increasing evidence that the in utero environment affects the health
and disease risk of offspring throughout their lives. The long-term effect of maternal …

Background Maternal obesity is associated with an increased risk of large-for-gestational-
age births and childhood obesity. However, evidence on its potential associations with long …