Background: A considerable body of evidence accumulated especially during the last
decade, demonstrating that early nutrition and lifestyle have long-term effects on later health …

Extensive experimental animal studies and epidemiological observations have shown that
environmental influences during early development affect the risk of later pathophysiological …

The long-term sequelae of adverse early-life experiences have long been a focus in
psychiatry, with a historic neurobiological emphasis on physiological systems that are …

Increasing evidence from the EU Project EARNEST and many other investigators
demonstrates that early nutrition and lifestyle have long-term effects on later health and the …

Infant nutrition has a major impact on immediate outcomes and long‐term health and later
disease risks, such as obesity and related disorders, a phenomenon referred to as …

Research on the impact of childhood nutrition on adult health and human capital has been
extensively studied in developed countries, but research in China on this topic is limited …

This article highlights the defining principles, progress, and future directions in epigenetics
research in relation to this Special Issue. Exciting studies in the fields of neuroscience …

Lifecourse-informed models of health fundamentally challenge simple biomedical models,
introducing new ways of thinking about how diseases develop. This paper considers the …

Hypertension, defined as a condition associated with 140-mm Hg systolic blood pressure or
90-mm Hg diastolic blood pressure, affects 1 billion people worldwide, 1 and in 2009 it cost …

Aim: Determine if the association of HIF3A DNA methylation with weight and adiposity is
detectable early in life. Material & methods: We determined HIF3A genotype and DNA …