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Maternal smoking very early in pregnancy is related to child overweight at age 5-7 yMichelle A Mendez
Centre de Recerca en Epidemiologia Ambiental, Institut Municipal d Investigacio Medica, Barcelona, Spain
Am J Clin Nutr 87:1906-13. 2008..To date, only one study has examined whether smoking in the first trimester only, which is not associated with birth weight, is also associated with childhood overweight...
Maternal fish and other seafood intakes during pregnancy and child neurodevelopment at age 4 yearsMichelle A Mendez
Center for Research in Environmental Epidemiology Municipal Institute of Medical Research IMIM Hospital del Mar, 88 Dr Aiguader Street, Barcelona, E 08003, Spain
Public Health Nutr 12:1702-10. 2009....- Breastfeeding, long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids in colostrum, and infant mental developmentMonica Guxens
Center for Research in Environmental Epidemiology, Barcelona, Spain
Pediatrics 128:e880-9. 2011..Breastfeeding has been associated with improved neurodevelopment in children. However, it remains unknown to what extent nutritional advantages of breast milk may explain this relationship... 
Prenatal concentrations of polychlorinated biphenyls, DDE, and DDT and overweight in children: a prospective birth cohort studyDamaskini Valvi
Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology, Barcelona, Spain
Environ Health Perspect 120:451-7. 2012..Recent experimental evidence suggests that prenatal exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) may increase postnatal obesity risk and that these effects may be sex or diet dependent...- Smoking during pregnancy is associated with higher dietary intake of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and poor diet qualityTalita Duarte-Salles
Center for Research in Environmental Epidemiology, 88 Dr Aiguader Street, Barcelona 08003, Spain
Public Health Nutr 13:2034-43. 2010..Recent studies suggest that prenatal exposure to PAH is associated with adverse reproductive outcomes. Other than tobacco smoke and occupational exposures, diet is the main source of human PAH exposure... - Surrounding greenness and pregnancy outcomes in four Spanish birth cohortsPayam Dadvand
Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology CREAL, Barcelona, Spain
Environ Health Perspect 120:1481-7. 2012..Objectives: We investigated the association between surrounding greenness and birth weight, head circumference, and gestational age at delivery... - Exposure to hexachlorobenzene during pregnancy increases the risk of overweight in children aged 6 yearsAgnes Smink
Center for Research in Environmental Epidemiology, Institut Municipal Investigacio Medica, Barcelona, Spain
Acta Paediatr 97:1465-9. 2008..To determine whether prenatal exposure to hexachlorobenzene (HCB) has potential adverse effects on child's weight and body mass index (BMI) in a general population with no local pollution sources... - Dietary benzo(a)pyrene and fetal growth: effect modification by vitamin C intake and glutathione S-transferase P1 polymorphismTalita Duarte-Salles
Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology, Barcelona, Spain
Environ Int 45:1-8. 2012..The role of diet, the main source of PAH exposure among non-smokers, remains uncertain... - A comparative analysis of dietary intakes during pregnancy in Europe: a planned pooled analysis of birth cohort studiesMichelle A Mendez
Center for Research in Environmental Epidemiology, Barcelona, Spain, Barcelona, Spain
Am J Clin Nutr 94:1993S-1999S. 2011..At present, relatively little is known about prevailing patterns of intake across groups with diverse sociodemographic and lifestyle patterns in these settings... - Alternative methods of accounting for underreporting and overreporting when measuring dietary intake-obesity relationsMichelle A Mendez
Center for Research in Environmental Epidemiology Municipal Institute for Medical Research Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain
Am J Epidemiol 173:448-58. 2011..15 (standard error, 0.07)). Alternative methods may yield more valid associations between diet and obesity-related outcomes... - Prenatal exposure to residential air pollution and infant mental development: modulation by antioxidants and detoxification factorsMonica Guxens
Center for Research in Environmental Epidemiology, Carrer Dr Aiguader 88, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Environ Health Perspect 120:144-9. 2012..Air pollution effects on children's neurodevelopment have recently been suggested to occur most likely through the oxidative stress pathway... - Male specific association between xenoestrogen levels in placenta and birthweightNadia Vilahur
Center for research in environmental epidemiology CREAL, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Environ Int 51:174-81. 2013..Fetal exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals may increase the risk for adverse health effects at birth or later in life... - Prenatal organochlorine compound exposure, rapid weight gain, and overweight in infancyMichelle A Mendez
Center for Research in Environmental Epidemiology, Barcelona, Spain
Environ Health Perspect 119:272-8. 2011..Although it has been hypothesized that fetal exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals may increase obesity risk, empirical data are limited, and it is uncertain how early in life any effects may begin... - Cognitive function and overweight in preschool childrenMonica Guxens
Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology, Barcelona, Spain
Am J Epidemiol 170:438-46. 2009..Children with higher cognitive function in early life might be at decreased risk of overweight later in childhood... - Glycemic load, glycemic index, and body mass index in Spanish adultsMichelle A Mendez
Center for Research in Environmental Epidemiology, Municipal Institute of Medical Research, Biomedical Research Park, Barcelona, Spain
Am J Clin Nutr 89:316-22. 2009..Studies on obesity and glycemic index (GI) or glycemic load (GL) have had inconsistent results, perhaps in part because of underreporting or to heterogeneous dietary patterns across food cultures... - Association between long-term exposure to traffic-related air pollution and subclinical atherosclerosis: the REGICOR studyMarcela Rivera
Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology CREAL, Barcelona, Spain
Environ Health Perspect 121:223-30. 2013..Epidemiological evidence of the effects of long-term exposure to air pollution on the chronic processes of atherogenesis is limited... - Dietary and sociodemographic determinants of bisphenol A urine concentrations in pregnant women and childrenMaribel Casas
Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology CREAL, Barcelona, Spain Hospital del Mar, Research Institute IMIM, Barcelona, Spain CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública CIBERESP, Barcelona, Spain Electronic address
Environ Int 56:10-8. 2013..Studies identifying sources of exposure would benefit from repeat BPA measurements and questionnaires specifically focused on dietary and packaging sources... - Relationship between maternal dietary patterns and hypospadiasChristianne A R de Kort
Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology CREAL, Barcelona, Spain
Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol 25:255-64. 2011..We found an association between food pattern and hypospadias, with those with less health conscious food patterns having a higher risk. Further study is needed to confirm this association... - Under- and overreporting of energy is related to obesity, lifestyle factors and food group intakes in Jamaican adultsMichelle A Mendez
Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, CB 8120, University Square, 123 West Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, NC 27516 2524, USA
Public Health Nutr 7:9-19. 2004..This paper examines the prevalence, patterns and impact of energy under- and overreporting on diet-obesity relationships in a middle-income developing country...