OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease is 2. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Dyslipidemia, insulin resistance, and impairment of placental metabolism in the offspring of obese mothers	29
A cautionary note on using Mendelian randomization to examine the Barker hypothesis and Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD)	19
Characterising and monitoring preconception health in England: a review of national population-level indicators and core data sources	19
Maternal childhood trauma and prenatal stressors are associated with child behavioral health	18
Reduced peanut sensitization with maternal peanut consumption and early peanut introduction while breastfeeding	15
Digit ratio (2D:4D) and amniotic testosterone and estradiol: an attempted replication of Lutchmaya et al. (2004)	14
Season-of-birth phenomenon in health and longevity: epidemiologic evidence and mechanistic considerations	13
Gestational exposure to Δ⁹-THC impacts ovarian follicular dynamics and angiogenesis in adulthood in Wistar rats	11
Digit ratio, a proposed marker of the prenatal hormone environment, is not associated with prenatal sex steroids, anogenital distance, or gender-typed play behavior in preschool age children	11
Birth weight and adult earnings: a systematic review and meta-analysis	11
Supraphysiological estradiol levels on the hCG trigger day are associated with SGA for singletons born from fresh embryo transfer	11
Will prenatal exposure to SARS-CoV-2 define a birth cohort with accelerated aging in the century ahead?	10
Limosilactobacillus fermentum prevents gut-kidney oxidative damage and the rise in blood pressure in male rat offspring exposed to a maternal high-fat diet	9
High-fructose diet during puberty alters the sperm parameters, testosterone concentration, and histopathology of testes and epididymis in adult Wistar rats	9
Epigenetic mechanisms involved in intrauterine growth restriction and aberrant kidney development and function	9
Association between gestational cannabis exposure and maternal, perinatal, placental, and childhood outcomes	8
Dipeptidyl peptidase IV inhibition delays developmental programming of obesity and metabolic disease in male offspring of obese mothers	8
Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on research and careers of early career researchers: a DOHaD perspective	8
Hair cortisol levels in pregnancy as a possible determinant of fetal sex: a longitudinal study	8
Developmental Origins of Health and Disease, resilience and social justice in the COVID era	8
Fetal programming by androgen excess impairs liver lipid content and PPARg expression in adult rats	7
Are there sex differences in fetal growth strategies and in the long-term effects of pregnancy complications on cognitive functioning?	7
Maternal BMI, breastfeeding and perinatal factors that influence early childhood growth trajectories: a scoping review	7
Myocardial perfusion and function dichotomy in growth restricted preterm infants	7
Understanding the importance of the early-life period for adult health: a systematic review	7

Altered neurodevelopmental DNA methylation status after fetal growth restriction with brain-sparing	7
Metformin in obese pregnancy has no adverse effects on cardiovascular risk in early childhood	7
Association between maternal prenatal psychological distress and autism spectrum disorder among 3-year-old children: The Japan Environment and Children’s Study	6
The fetal origins of disease: a prospective cohort study on the association of preeclampsia and childhood obesity	6
Maternal intake of fructose or artificial sweetener during pregnancy and lactation has persistent effects on metabolic and reproductive health of dams post-weaning	6
The effect of resveratrol in cardio-metabolic disorders during pregnancy and offspring outcomes: a review	6
Early-childhood BMI trajectories in relation to preclinical cardiovascular measurements in adolescence	6
Public knowledge and opinion of epigenetics and epigenetic concepts	6
Self-reported mental health status of donor sperm-conceived adults	6
Caregiving adversity during infancy and preschool cognitive function: adaptations to context?	6
Folate and vitamin B12 status: associations with maternal glucose and neonatal DNA methylation sites related to dysglycaemia, in pregnant women with obesity	6
DNA methylation mediates a randomized controlled trial home-visiting intervention during pregnancy and the Bayley infant’s cognitive scores at 12 months of age	6
Circulating microRNAs from early childhood and adolescence are associated with pre-diabetes at 18 years of age in women from the PMNS cohort	6
Prenatal and pubertal exposure to 17α-ethinylestradiol disrupts folliculogenesis and promotes morphophysiological changes in ovaries of old gerbils (Meriones unguiculatus)	6
Maternal intake of alpha-lipoic acid prevents development of symptoms associated with a fructose-rich diet in the male offspring in Wistar rats	5
Reproductive fluids, added to the culture media, contribute to minimizing phenotypical differences between in vitro-derived and artificial insemination-derived piglets	5
The application of in utero magnetic resonance imaging in the study of the metabolic and cardiovascular consequences of the developmental origins of health and disease	5
Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging: insights into developmental programming and its consequences for aging	5
Associations between stool micro-transcriptome, gut microbiota, and infant growth	5
Growth from birth to 6 months of infants with and without intrauterine preeclampsia exposure	5
Epigenetics and DOHaD: how translation to predictive testing will require a better public understanding	5
Prolonged atrazine exposure beginning in utero and adult uterine morphology in mice	5
Advanced maternal age perturbs mouse embryo development and alters the phenotype of derived embryonic stem cells	5
Pregnancy outcomes in women with preexisting thyroid diseases: a French cohort study	5
Placental nanoparticle gene therapy normalizes gene expression changes in the fetal liver associated with fetal growth restriction in a fetal sex-specific manner	5
The role of maternal diet on offspring hyperinsulinaemia and adiposity after birth: a systematic review of randomised controlled trials	4
Maternal exercise during pregnancy modulates mitochondrial function and redox status in a sex-dependent way in adult offspring’s skeletal muscle	4
Life course of retrospective harmonization initiatives: key elements to consider	4
Two-Eyed Seeing and developmental origins of health and disease studies with indigenous partners	4
Sex specific associations between in utero exposure to persistent organic pollutants and allergy-related outcomes in childhood: The Rhea Mother–Child Cohort (Crete, Greece)	4
Treatment with topiramate in rats during childhood causes testicular structural impairment at adulthood	4
Dynamic DNA methylation changes in early versus late adulthood suggest nondeterministic effects of childhood adversity: a meta-analysis	4
COVID-19: can we treat the mother without harming her baby?	4
Neurodevelopmental assessment of infants born to mothers with hypertensive disorder of pregnancy at six months of age	4
Perinatal and post-weaning exposure to a high-fat diet causes histomorphometric, neuroplastic, and histopathological changes in the rat ileum	4
DNA methylation profile of liver of mice conceived by in vitro fertilization	4
Evaluation of H19, Mest, Meg3, and Peg3 genes affecting growth and metabolism in umbilical cord blood cells of infants born to mothers with gestational diabetes and healthy mothers in Rafsanjan City,	4
The role of genetics in fetal programming of adult cardiometabolic disease	4
Body composition during the first 4 months in infants affected by neonatal abstinence syndrome: a pilot study	4
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	4
Leptin and adiponectin concentrations in infants with low birth weight: relationship with maternal health and postnatal growth	4
Hyperglycemia in pregnancy and developmental outcomes in children at 18–60 months of age: the PANDORA Wave 1 study	4
Relation of maternal birthweight with early pregnancy obesity, gestational diabetes, and offspring macrosomia	4
Obese mothers supplemented with melatonin during gestation and lactation ameliorate the male offspring’s pancreatic islet cellular composition and beta-cell function	4
Cardiac and vascular health in late preterm infants	3
Association between maternal prepregnancy body mass index with offspring cardiometabolic risk factors: analysis of three Brazilian birth cohorts	3
In utero Ramadan exposure and child nutrition	3
Late effects of early weaning on food preference and the dopaminergic and endocannabinoid systems in male and female rats	3
Non-nutritive bioactive components in maternal milk and offspring development: a scoping review	3
Respiratory viral infections during pregnancy: effects of SARS-CoV-2 and other related viruses over the offspring	3

Aberrant inflammation in rat pregnancy leads to cardiometabolic alterations in the offspring and intrauterine growth restriction in the F2 generation	3
Effects of maternal controlled exercise on offspring adiposity and glucose tolerance	3
Adulthood asthma as a consequence of childhood adversity: a systematic review of epigenetically affected genes	3
A prospective cohort study of head circumference and its association with neurodevelopmental outcomes in infants and young children in rural Guatemala	3
Preconception and prenatal maternal stress are associated with broad autism phenotype in young adults: Project Ice Storm	3
A model of optimal timing for a predictive adaptive response	3
Effect of embryo cryopreservation duration on pregnancy-related complications and birthweight after frozen-thawed embryo transfer: a retrospective cohort study	3
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	3
Prenatal nicotine exposure leads to decreased histone H3 lysine 9 (H3K9) methylation and increased p66shc expression in the neonatal pancreas	3
The impact a Mediterranean Diet in the third trimester of pregnancy has on neonatal body fat percentage	3
Association of chemerin gene promoter methylation in maternal blood and breast milk during gestational diabetes	3
Propensity score analysis of the association between maternal exposure to second-hand tobacco smoke and birth defects in Northwestern China	3
Relationships between maternal body mass index and child cognitive outcomes at 3 years of age are buffered by specific early environments in a prospective Canadian birth cohort	3
Effects of maternal exposure to acute stress on birth outcomes: a quasi-experiment study	3
Early postnatal exposure of rat pups to methylglyoxal induces oxidative stress, inflammation and dysmetabolism at adulthood	3
Maternal high-fat diet consumption programs male offspring to mitigate complications in liver regeneration	3
Selecting life course frameworks to guide and communicate large new cohort studies: Generation Victoria (GenV) case study	3
The effects of in utero exposure to teratogens on organ size: a prospective paediatric study	3
Developmental variation in testosterone:cortisol ratio alters cortical- and amygdala-based cognitive processes	3
Complementary feeding practices and their association with adiposity indicators at 12 months of age	3
Metabolic programming in offspring of mice fed fructose during pregnancy and lactation	3
Preeclampsia-induced alterations in brain and liver gene expression and DNA methylation patterns in fetal mice	3
Oral pyrroloquinoline quinone (PQQ) during pregnancy increases cardiomyocyte endowment in spontaneous IUGR guinea pigs	3
PPARγ activation in late gestation does not promote surfactant maturation in the fetal sheep lung	3
Impact of smoking and fetal gender on preterm delivery	3
Nutrition beyond the first 1000 days: diet quality and 7-year change in BMI and overweight in 3-year old children from the Dutch GECKO Drenthe birth cohort	3
Associations between maternal exposure to surgery or pregnancy exposure to fluorinated anesthetics and children’s cognitive development and educational outcomes	3
Birthweight and subsequent risk for thyroid and autoimmune conditions in postmenopausal women	3
Associations between maternal folate status and choline intake during pregnancy and neurodevelopment at 3–4 years of age in the Alberta Pregnancy Outcomes and Nutrition (APrON) study	3
Assisted reproductive technology and long-term ophthalmic morbidity of the offspring	3
Is increased size at birth associated with longevity on the population level? – A historical and comparative analysis of regions in Sweden	3
Temporal and spatial development of intestinal smooth muscle layers of human embryos and fetuses	3
The significance of maternal asymptomatic bacteriuria during pregnancy on long-term offspring infectious hospitalizations	3
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	3
Alteration of the embryonic microenvironment and sex-specific responses of the preimplantation embryo related to a maternal high-fat diet in the rabbit model	2
Sex- and age-dependent differences in nicotine susceptibility evoked by developmental exposure to tobacco smoke and/or ethanol in mice	2
Influence of intrauterine growth status on aortic intima-media thickness and aortic diameter in near-term fetuses: a comparative cross-sectional study	2
Essential oil supplementation in milk replacers: short- and long-term impacts on feed efficiency, the faecal microbiota and the plasma metabolome in dairy calves	2
Renal morphology and glomerular capillarisation in young adult sheep born moderately preterm	2
Moderate maternal nutrient reduction in pregnancy alters fatty acid oxidation and RNA splicing in the nonhuman primate fetal liver	2
The effect of wasting and stunting during severe acute malnutrition in infancy on insulin sensitivity and insulin clearance in adult life	2
The impact of diet during adolescence on the neonatal health of offspring: evidence on the importance of preconception diet. The HUNT study	2
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	2
Inter-pregnancy interval and later pediatric cardiovascular health of the offspring – a population-based cohort study	2
Impact ofin vitroembryo culture and transfer on blood pressure regulation in the adolescent lamb	2
The effect of season of birth on brain epigenome-wide DNA methylation of older adults	2
Effects of uteroplacental insufficiency on cardiac development in growth-restricted newborn rats	2
Relationships between the maternal prenatal diet and epigenetic state in infants: a systematic review of human studies	2
Twins in Guinea-Bissau have a ‘thin-fat’ body composition compared to singletons	2
Preeclampsia and risk of maternal pulmonary hypertension at high altitude in Bolivia	2
Intergenerational effects of prenatal hypoxia exposure on uterine artery adaptations to pregnancies in the female offspring	2
First 1000 days: New Zealand Mothers’ perceptions of early life nutrition resources	2
Maternal soy protein isolate diet during lactation programs deleterious effects on hepatic lipid metabolism, atherogenic indices, and function of adrenal in adult rat offspring	2
Early postnatal overnutrition impairs VO_2max gains with moderate exercise and increase post-exercise muscle damage in adult male rats	2
COVID-19 age-dependent immunology and clinical outcomes: implications for vaccines	2
Early-life disease environment and adult height in historical populations	2
Childhood waist growth curves and adult diabetes	2
Maternal pea fiber supplementation to a high calorie diet in obese pregnancies protects male offspring from metabolic dysfunction in adulthood	2
Placental adaptations in a nonhuman primate model of gestational protein restriction	2
Anaesthesia and brain development: a review of propofol-induced neurotoxicity in pediatric populations	2
The impact of maternal protein restriction during perinatal life on the response to a septic insult in adult rats	2
Prenatal trimester-specific intake of micronutrients: global DNA methylation and hydroxymethylation at birth and persistence in childhood	2
Maternal childhood maltreatment: associations to offspring brain volume and white matter connectivity	2