Pregnancy and birth cohorts have been utilised extensively to investigate the developmental origins of health and disease, particularly in relation to... ...

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• 2015
• April 2015

This review aims to summarise and evaluate the potential mechanisms and evidence for the role of prenatal infection on the central nervous system, and how it... ...

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• 2013
• July 2013

Antioxidant intakes in pregnancy may influence fetal immune programming and the risk of allergic disease. ...

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• 2012
• November 2012

Complementary feeding induces dramatic ecological shifts in the infant gut microbiota toward more diverse compositions and functional metabolic capacities, with potential implications for immune and metabolic health. The aim of this study was to examine whether the age at which solid foods are introduced differentially affects the microbiota in predominantly breastfed infants compared with predominantly formula-fed infants.  ...

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• 2024
• January 2024

Evidence suggests consumption of a Mediterranean diet (MD) can positively impact both maternal and offspring health, potentially mediated by a beneficial effect on inflammatory pathways. We aimed to apply metabolic profiling of serum and urine samples to assess differences between women who were stratified into high and low alignment to a MD throughout pregnancy and investigate the relationship of the diet to inflammatory markers.   ...

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• 2023
• December 2023

Diet and physical activity are two lifestyle behaviours that are critical for healthy ageing. The aim of this study was to explore how older adults negotiate dietary and physical activity decisions to identify areas of intersection between these two behaviours and inform health promotion interventions targeting both diet and exercise. ...

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• 2023
• September 2023

The vast and growing challenges for human health and all life on Earth require urgent and deep structural changes to the way in which we live. Broken relationships with nature are at the core of both the modern health crisis and the erosion of planetary health. A declining connection to nature has been implicated in the exploitative attitudes that underpin the degradation of both physical and social environments and almost all aspects of personal physical, mental, and spiritual health. ...

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• 2023
• March 2023

determining if regular consumption of egg protein from age 4 to 6 months reduces the risk of IgE mediated allergy in infants with genetic risk, without eczema. ...

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• 2017
• May 2017

Over the past decade, a growing number of studies have linked urban green space and aspects of biodiversity with emotional wellbeing. ...

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• 2017
• July 2017

This review covers basic aspects of histone modification and the role of posttranslational histone modifications in the development of allergic diseases ...

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• 2018
• May 2018