OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Female rats consuming an iron and omega-3 fatty acid deficient diet preconception require combined iron and omega-3 fatty acid supplementation for the prevention of bone impairments in offspring	23
Maternal prenatal psychological distress and motor/cognitive development in two-year-old offspring: The Japan Environment and Children’s Study	22
Characterising and monitoring preconception health in England: a review of national population-level indicators and core data sources	13
Childhood waist growth curves and adult diabetes	13
Life course of retrospective harmonization initiatives: key elements to consider	12
Long-term outcomes of visual motor integration and motor development children with retinopathy of prematurity	11
The effect of season of birth on brain epigenome-wide DNA methylation of older adults	11
Cardiovascular and renal profiles in rat offspring that do not undergo catch-up growth after exposure to maternal protein restriction	11
Effects of uteroplacental insufficiency on cardiac development in growth-restricted newborn rats	11
Associations of maternal preterm birth with subsequent risk for type 2 diabetes in women from the women’s health initiative	10
Placental insufficiency induces a sexually dimorphic response in the expression of cardiac growth and metabolic signalling molecules upon exposure to a postnatal western diet in guinea pigs	10
Treatment with topiramate in rats during childhood causes testicular structural impairment at adulthood	10
Investigating the IGF axis as a pathway for intergenerational effects	9
Association between paternal physique and obesity in children at the age of 3 years: the Japan Environment and Children’s Study	8
Oral pyrroloquinoline quinone (PQQ) during pregnancy increases cardiomyocyte endowment in spontaneous IUGR guinea pigs	8
Low levels of sulfur and cobalt during the pre- and periconceptional periods affect the oocyte yield of donors and the DNA methylome of preimplantation bovine embryos	8
In This Issue	8
Maternal childhood maltreatment: associations to offspring brain volume and white matter connectivity	8
(-)-epicatechin treatment did not modify the thermogenic pathway in the gastrocnemius muscle of male rat offspring obeses by programming	8
In This Issue	8
Exposure to maternal hyperglycemia and high-fat diet consumption after weaning in rats: repercussions on periovarian adipose tissue	8
In This Issue	8
PedBE age and age acceleration in umbilical vein endothelial cells: an examination of infant birth outcomes	7
Long-term impact of hypothyroidism during gestation and lactation on the mammary gland	7
Maternal protein restriction during the lactation period disrupts the ontogenetic development of behavioral traits in male Wistar rat offspring	7

Potential long consequences from internal and external ecology: loss of gut microbiota antifragility in children from an industrialized population compared with an indigenous rural lifestyle	7
In This Issue	7
Tackling inequalities in preconception health and care: barriers, facilitators and recommendations for action from the 2023 UK preconception EMCR network conference	6
Supraphysiological estradiol levels on the hCG trigger day are associated with SGA for singletons born from fresh embryo transfer	6
Protective effect of antioxidants on cardiac function in adult offspring exposed to prenatal overnutrition	6
Preeclampsia and risk of maternal pulmonary hypertension at high altitude in Bolivia	6
Developmental origins of health and disease knowledge is associated with diet quality in preconception young adult men and women	6
Early-childhood BMI trajectories in relation to preclinical cardiovascular measurements in adolescence	6
The impact of smoking and nicotine exposure during pregnancy on fetal nephrogenesis: a systematic review	6
Peripubertal soy isoflavone consumption leads to subclinical hypothyroidism in male Wistar rats	6
The effect of low birthweight on physical activity engagement and markers of chronic disease in the Framingham cohort	5
Myocardial perfusion and function dichotomy in growth restricted preterm infants	5
Early postnatal exposure of rat pups to methylglyoxal induces oxidative stress, inflammation and dysmetabolism at adulthood	5
Circulating microRNAs from early childhood and adolescence are associated with pre-diabetes at 18 years of age in women from the PMNS cohort	5
Assessing the causal relationship of birth weight and childhood obesity on osteoarthritis: a Mendelian randomization study	5
Lifetime caffeine and adolescent nicotine exposure in mice: effects on anxiety-like behavior and reward	5
The co-occurrence and cumulative prevalence of hypertension, rheumatoid arthritis, and hypothyroidism in preterm-born women in the Women’s Health Initiative	5
Pregnancy and lactation after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass worsen nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in obese rats and lead to differential programming of hepatic de novo lipogenesis in offspring	5
In This Issue	5
Effects of maternal exposure to acute stress on birth outcomes: a quasi-experiment study	5
DNA methylation profile of liver of mice conceived by in vitro fertilization	5
Biomarkers of cardiovascular disease risk in the neonatal population	5
Obese mothers supplemented with melatonin during gestation and lactation ameliorate the male offspring’s pancreatic islet cellular composition and beta-cell function	4
The role of maternal diet on offspring hyperinsulinaemia and adiposity after birth: a systematic review of randomised controlled trials	4
Protein restriction during peripubertal period impairs endothelial aortic function in adult male Wistar rats	4
Attenuated glucose-stimulated insulin secretion during an acute IGF-1 LR3 infusion into fetal sheep does not persist in isolated islets	4
Financial hardship and caregiver and child mental health during the 3 years of the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia	4
A systematic review exploring evidence for adolescent understanding of concepts related to the developmental origins of health and disease	4
Supplementation of diet with Astaxanthin and DHA prevents gestational and lactational undernourishment-induced metabolic derangements in dams: a metabolomic approach	4
Puberty as a DOHaD programming window: high-fat diet induces long-term hepatic dysfunction in male rats	4
Low protein uptake during peripuberty impairs the testis, epididymis, and spermatozoa in pubertal and adult Wistar rats	4
Gestational weight gain is associated with childhood height, weight and BMI in the Peri/Postnatal Epigenetic Twins Study	4
COVID-19 age-dependent immunology and clinical outcomes: implications for vaccines	4
Essential oil supplementation in milk replacers: short- and long-term impacts on feed efficiency, the faecal microbiota and the plasma metabolome in dairy calves	3
Building strong health and career trajectories through translational research	3
Association of birthweight with diabetes, hypertension, and ischemic heart disease in young adulthood: a retrospective cohort study	3
The impact of maternal and paternal birth weights on infant birth weights: the Japan environment and children’s study	3
Relation of maternal birthweight with early pregnancy obesity, gestational diabetes, and offspring macrosomia	3
Juvenile exposure to low-level 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) alters behavior and longitudinal morphometrics in zebrafish and F₁ offspring	3
Association between maternal prepregnancy body mass index with offspring cardiometabolic risk factors: analysis of three Brazilian birth cohorts	3
Moderate maternal nutrient reduction in pregnancy alters fatty acid oxidation and RNA splicing in the nonhuman primate fetal liver	3
Reconsidering the “non-recanalization theory” of the gut	3
Neonatal nicotine exposure affects adult rat hepatic pathways involved in endoplasmic reticulum stress and macroautophagy in a sex-dependent manner	3
Relationship between insulin and Netrin-1/DCC guidance cue pathway regulation in the prefrontal cortex of rodents exposed to prenatal dietary restriction	3
Maternal under-nutrition during pregnancy alters the molecular response to over-nutrition in multiple organs and tissues in nonhuman primate juvenile offspring	3
Intergenerational effects of prenatal hypoxia exposure on uterine artery adaptations to pregnancies in the female offspring	3
Adverse pregnancy outcomes are associated with shorter telomere length in the 17-year-old child	3
Anthropometric proxies for child neurodevelopment in low-resource settings: length- or height-for-age, head circumference or both?	3
Maternal high-fat diet consumption during pregnancy and lactation predisposes offspring to renal and metabolic injury later in life: comparative study of diets with different lipid contents	3
In This Issue	3

Association of maternal psychosocial stress with newborn body composition in the Healthy Start study	3
Associations between maternal exposure to surgery or pregnancy exposure to fluorinated anesthetics and children’s cognitive development and educational outcomes	3
Two-Eyed Seeing and developmental origins of health and disease studies with indigenous partners	3
Stress response abnormalities transgenerationally inherited via miR-23 downregulation are restored by a methyl modulator during the lactation period	3
Developmental variation in testosterone:cortisol ratio alters cortical- and amygdala-based cognitive processes	3
Maternal prenatal and postnatal psychological distress trajectories and impact on cognitive development in 4-year-old children: the Japan Environment and Children’s Study	3
Early neurodevelopment in the offspring of women enrolled in a randomized controlled trial assessing the effectiveness of a nutrition + exercise intervention on the cognitive development of 12-month-o	3
Childhood eating practices are relevant to ultra-processed food consumption in adulthood: results from the Nutritionists’ Health Study	3
Twins in Guinea-Bissau have a ‘thin-fat’ body composition compared to singletons	3
The impact of adversities across the lifespan on psychological symptom profiles in late adulthood: a latent profile analysis	2
DNA methylation mediates a randomized controlled trial home-visiting intervention during pregnancy and the Bayley infant’s cognitive scores at 12 months of age	2
Latent growth analysis of children’s height growth trajectories	2
Early-life disease environment and adult height in historical populations	2
Supplemental folic acid and/or multivitamins in pregnancy is associated with a decreased risk of childhood and adolescent nasopharyngeal carcinoma	2
Preventive effects of kefir on colon tumor development in Wistar rats: gut microbiota critical role	2
Developmental Origins of Health and Disease, resilience and social justice in the COVID era	2
Influence of intrauterine growth status on aortic intima-media thickness and aortic diameter in near-term fetuses: a comparative cross-sectional study	2
Human milk polyunsaturated fatty acids are related to neurodevelopmental, anthropometric, and allergic outcomes in early life: a systematic review	2
Population-based assessment of major congenital malformations in the United States: smoking risk association	2
Variation in placental microRNA expression associates with maternal family history of cardiovascular disease	2
Are there sex differences in fetal growth strategies and in the long-term effects of pregnancy complications on cognitive functioning?	2
Differential expression of genes influencing mitotic processes in cord blood mononuclear cells after a pre-conceptional micronutrient-based randomised controlled trial: Pune Rural Intervention in Youn	2
Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on research and careers of early career researchers: a DOHaD perspective	2
Prenatal nicotine exposure leads to decreased histone H3 lysine 9 (H3K9) methylation and increased p66shc expression in the neonatal pancreas	2
Newborns physiological differences in low- and high-altitude settings of Ecuador	2
Maternal BMI, breastfeeding and perinatal factors that influence early childhood growth trajectories: a scoping review	2
Metformin in obese pregnancy has no adverse effects on cardiovascular risk in early childhood	2
Understanding the importance of the early-life period for adult health: a systematic review	2
Birth weight and cardiometabolic risk factors: a discordant twin study in the UK Biobank	2
In This Issue	1
Leptin and adiponectin concentrations in infants with low birth weight: relationship with maternal health and postnatal growth	1
Effects of maternal restraint stress on offspring intestinal microbiota and adipogenesis: insights from in vivo and in vitro studies	1
In This Issue	1
Anaesthesia and brain development: a review of propofol-induced neurotoxicity in pediatric populations	1
The significance of maternal asymptomatic bacteriuria during pregnancy on long-term offspring infectious hospitalizations	1
Is increased size at birth associated with longevity on the population level? – A historical and comparative analysis of regions in Sweden	1
Altered neurodevelopmental DNA methylation status after fetal growth restriction with brain-sparing	1
Early life stress exacerbates the obesogenic and anxiogenic effects of a Western diet without worsening cardiac ischaemic tolerance in male mice	1
In This Issue	1
Factors associated with low birthweight among late preterm singletons in Japan using pregnancy birth registry data	1
Rainfall shocks and child health in rural Pakistan	1
Defining the role of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis in the relationship between fetal growth and adult cardiometabolic outcomes	1
Association of serum and erythrocyte zinc levels with breastfeeding and complementary feeding in preterm and term infants	1
In This Issue	1
The effect of wasting and stunting during severe acute malnutrition in infancy on insulin sensitivity and insulin clearance in adult life	1
In This Issue	1
Effects of early-life voluntary exercise and fructose on adult activity levels, body composition, aerobic capacity, and organ masses in mice bred for high voluntary wheel-running behavior	1
Essential oil supplementation in milk replacers: short- and long-term impacts on feed efficiency, the faecal microbiota and the plasma metabolome in dairy calves – ADDENDUM	1
Birthweight-for-gestational-age z-scores are associated with early childhood cardiometabolic health in the Peri/Postnatal Epigenetic Twin Study	1
The role of genetics in fetal programming of adult cardiometabolic disease	1
When a birth cohort grows up: challenges and opportunities in longitudinal developmental origins of health and disease (DOHaD) research	1
Differential associations between birthweight and cardiometabolic characteristics among persons with and without type 2 diabetes in the UK Biobank	1
Relationships between the maternal prenatal diet and epigenetic state in infants: a systematic review of human studies	1
Maternal pea fiber supplementation to a high calorie diet in obese pregnancies protects male offspring from metabolic dysfunction in adulthood	1
In This Issue	1
Associations between prenatal alcohol exposure and early education outcomes: a matched controls study using the born in Bradford dataset	1
In This Issue	1
Reproductive fluids, added to the culture media, contribute to minimizing phenotypical differences between in vitro-derived and artificial insemination-derived piglets	1
Upregulation of miR-21-5p rescues the inhibition of cardiomyocyte proliferation induced by high glucose through negative regulation of Rhob	1
Propensity score analysis of the association between maternal exposure to second-hand tobacco smoke and birth defects in Northwestern China	1
Thermoneutrality effects on developmental programming of obesity	1
Limosilactobacillus fermentum prevent gut-kidney oxidative damage and the rise in blood pressure in male rat offspring exposed to a maternal high-fat diet – CORRIGENDUM	1