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Naomi Tamura, Tomoyuki Hanaoka, Kumiko Ito, Atsuko Araki, Chihiro Miyashita, Sachiko Ito, Hisanori Minakami, Kazutoshi Cho, Toshiaki Endo, Kazuo Sengoku, Katsuhiko Ogasawara and Reiko Kishi
From 1985 to 2013, the mean birth weight of infants in Japan decreased from 3120 g to 3000 g, and the low-birth-weight rate among live births increased from 6.3% to 9.6%. No prospective study has elucidated the risk factors for poor fetal growth and pret...
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Yu Hu, Yaping Chen, Ying Wang and Hui Liang
This study aimed to investigate the coverage of hepatitis B vaccine (Hep B) and its completeness and timeliness for birth cohorts from 1999 to 2017 in Zhejiang province, East China. Demographic characteristics and vaccination records of Hep B of children...
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Yon Ho Jee, Aesun Shin, Jong-Keun Lee and Chang-Mo Oh
Background: This study aimed to examine trends in smoking-related cancer mortality rates and to investigate the effect birth cohort on smoking-related cancer mortality in Korean men. Methods: The number of smoking-related cancer deaths and corresponding ...
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Stefanie Braig, Jon Genuneit, Viola Walter, Stephanie Brandt, Martin Wabitsch, Lutz Goldbeck, Hermann Brenner and Dietrich Rothenbacher
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Diep H. Ha, Loc G. Do, Andrew John Spencer, William Murray Thomson, Rebecca K. Golley, Andrew J. Rugg-Gunn, Steven M. Levy and Jane A. Scott
Early feeding of free sugars to young children can increase the preference for sweetness and the risk of consuming a cariogenic diet high in free sugars later in life. This study aimed to investigate early life factors influencing early introduction of f...
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Raymond Orr, Darren Calhoun, Carolyn Noonan, Ron Whitener, Jeff Henderson, Jack Goldberg and Patrica Nez Henderson
The consequences of starting smoking by age 18 are significant. Early smoking initiation is associated with higher tobacco dependence, increased difficulty in smoking cessation and more negative health outcomes. The purpose of this study is to examine ho...
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Xiaoxue Liu, Chuanhua Yu, Yongbo Wang, Yongyi Bi, Yu Liu and Zhi-Jiang Zhang
Background: The prevalence of diabetes mellitus is rapidly increasing in China, but the secular trends in incidence and mortality remain unknown. This study aims to examine time trends from 1990 to 2017 and the net age, period, and cohort effects on diab...
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Karin Engström, Anna Axmon, Christel Nielsen and Anna Rignell-Hydbom
In 2013, the drinking water for one-third of the households in Ronneby, Sweden, was found to be contaminated by perfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS, >10,000 ng/L) from Aqueous Film Forming Foam (AFFF). In utero PFAS exposure can influence birth weight,...
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Hui-Fen Chiu, Brian K. Chen and Chun-Yuh Yang
The evidence is limited on the relationship between reproductive factors and bladder cancer (BC). We studied 1,292,462 women who had a first and singleton delivery between 1 January 1978 and 31 December 1987. Each woman in the study cohort was tracked fr...
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Yiran Cui, Hui Shen, Fang Wang, Haoyu Wen, Zixin Zeng, Yafeng Wang and Chuanhua Yu
Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the major infectious diseases with the largest number of morbidity and mortality. Based on the comparison of high and low burden countries of tuberculosis in China, India and the United States, the influence of age-period-coho...
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Linda S. Pagani, Kianoush Harandian, Beatrice Necsa and Marie-Josée Harbec
Maternal health represents an important predictor of child development; yet it often goes unnoticed during pediatric visits. Previous work suggests that mental state affects parenting. The relationship between infant exposure to maternal depressive sympt...
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Nasloon Ali, Wasif Khan, Amir Ahmad, Mohammad Mehedy Masud, Hiba Adam and Luai A. Ahmed
Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is a common condition with repercussions for both the mother and her child. Machine learning (ML) modeling techniques were proposed to predict the risk of several medical outcomes. A systematic evaluation of the predic...
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Alireza Ebrahimvandi, Niyousha Hosseinichimeh and Zhenyu James Kong
Preterm birth (PTB) is the leading cause of infant mortality in the U.S. and globally. The goal of this study is to increase understanding of PTB risk factors that are present early in pregnancy by leveraging statistical and machine learning (ML) techniq...
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Chris Busby, Malak Hamdan and Entesar Ariabi
There have been anecdotal reports of increases in birth defects and cancer in Fallujah, Iraq blamed on the use of novel weapons (possibly including depleted uranium) in heavy fighting which occurred in that town between US led forces and local elements i...
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