The traditional view of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) as a self-inflicted
disease caused by tobacco smoking in genetically susceptible individuals has been …

Environmental exposures, psychosocial stressors and nutrition are all potentially important
influences that may impact health outcomes directly or via interactions with the genome or …

We propose a model for obesity development that traces a considerable part of its origins to
the social domain (mainly different forms of prolonged social adversity), both within and …

Early life is an important window of opportunity to improve health across the full lifecycle. An
accumulating body of evidence suggests that exposure to adverse stressors during early life …

Numerous epidemiological and animal studies disclosed that birth weight is inversely
associated with the incidence of the lifestyle-related disorders in adult life, such as …

Abstract Globally, stunting affects approximately 149.2 million children under 5 years of age.
The underlying aetiology and pathophysiological mechanisms leading to stunting remain …

The Mergeomics web server is a flexible online tool for multi-omics data integration to derive
biological pathways, networks, and key drivers important to disease pathogenesis and is …

Assisted reproductive technology (ART) may affect fetal development through epigenetic
mechanisms as the timing of ART procedures coincides with the extensive epigenetic …

Given the global increase in air pollution and its crucial role in human health, as well as the
steep rise in prevalence of metabolic syndrome (MetS), a better understanding of the …

Sedentary lifestyle and consumption of high-calorie foods have caused a relentless increase
of overweight and obesity prevalence at all ages. Its presently epidemic proportion is …