Background Rapid weight gain in the first years of life is associated with adult obesity.
Whether there are critical windows for this long-term effect is unclear. Objective The …

Although the brain continues developing in the postnatal period, epidemiological studies on
the effects of postnatal exposure to neurotoxic POPs through breast-feeding remain mostly …

Background The intensive use of chlordecone (an organochlorine insecticide) in the French
West Indies until 1993 resulted in a long-term soil and water contamination. Chlordecone …

Background: Different structural and non-structural models have been used to describe
human growth patterns. However, few studies have compared the fitness of these models in …

Background Only one mathematical model to date describes human growth and its different
phases from fetal life until adult height. Aim To develop a model describing growth from fetal …

Aim We aimed to develop up‐to‐date references with standard deviation scores (SDS) for
prepubertal and total height. Methods Longitudinal length/height measures from 1572 …

There is broad recognition that early life growth trajectories can contribute to the study of the
onset and development of several health outcomes. We review the random-effects …

Childhood overweight is an important worldwide problem of public health concern, with
metabolic, physical and psychosocial complications. More and more evidence is …

An important goal of growth monitoring is to identify genetic disorders, diseases or other
conditions that manifest themselves through an abnormal growth. The two main conditions …

Growth models used for describing the dynamics of body weight and height generally
consider each trait independently. We proposed modeling height and weight trajectories …