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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
In This Issue	20
Neonatal nicotine exposure changes insulin status in fat depots: sex-related differences	19
In This Issue	11
Prenatal programming of depression: cumulative risk or mismatch in the Ontario Child Health Study?	11
Role of testosterone: cortisol ratio in age- and sex-specific cortico-hippocampal development and cognitive performance	9
In This Issue	8
Neonatal nicotine exposure affects adult rat hepatic pathways involved in endoplasmic reticulum stress and macroautophagy in a sex-dependent manner	8
In This Issue	8
Characterising and monitoring preconception health in England: a review of national population-level indicators and core data sources	7
Self-reported mental health status of donor sperm-conceived adults	7
Malathion exposure during juvenile and peripubertal periods downregulate androgen receptor and 17-ß-HSD testicular gene expression and compromised sperm quality in rats	7
Maternal prenatal psychological distress and motor/cognitive development in two-year-old offspring: The Japan Environment and Children’s Study	7
Empirical evidence of predictive adaptive response in humans: systematic review and meta-analysis of migrant populations	7
Building strong health and career trajectories through translational research	7
Neurodevelopmental assessment of infants born to mothers with hypertensive disorder of pregnancy at six months of age	7
Defining the role of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis in the relationship between fetal growth and adult cardiometabolic outcomes	6
When a birth cohort grows up: challenges and opportunities in longitudinal developmental origins of health and disease (DOHaD) research	6
Prolonged atrazine exposure beginning in utero and adult uterine morphology in mice	6
The effect of resveratrol in cardio-metabolic disorders during pregnancy and offspring outcomes: a review	6
Prenatal dietary patterns in relation to adolescent offspring adiposity and adipokines in a Mexico City cohort	6
Lifetime caffeine and adolescent nicotine exposure in mice: effects on anxiety-like behavior and reward	6
Essential oil supplementation in milk replacers: short- and long-term impacts on feed efficiency, the faecal microbiota and the plasma metabolome in dairy calves	6
Newborns physiological differences in low- and high-altitude settings of Ecuador	6
Leptin and adiponectin concentrations in infants with low birth weight: relationship with maternal health and postnatal growth	6
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	6

Association of serum and erythrocyte zinc levels with breastfeeding and complementary feeding in preterm and term infants	6
Life course of retrospective harmonization initiatives: key elements to consider	5
Childhood waist growth curves and adult diabetes	5
Prenatal and pubertal exposure to 17α-ethinylestradiol disrupts folliculogenesis and promotes morphophysiological changes in ovaries of old gerbils (Meriones unguiculatus)	5
Metformin in obese pregnancy has no adverse effects on cardiovascular risk in early childhood	5
Association of maternal psychosocial stress with newborn body composition in the Healthy Start study	5
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	5
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	5
Four years of the COVID-19 pandemic: how does Brazil deal with the impacts? A DOHaD perspective	5
A prospective cohort study of head circumference and its association with neurodevelopmental outcomes in infants and young children in rural Guatemala	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
Biomarkers of cardiovascular disease risk in the neonatal population	4
Effects of maternal controlled exercise on offspring adiposity and glucose tolerance	4
Thermoneutrality effects on developmental programming of obesity	4
Birthweight and subsequent risk for thyroid and autoimmune conditions in postmenopausal women	4
Variation in placental microRNA expression associates with maternal family history of cardiovascular disease	4
Influence of intrauterine growth status on aortic intima-media thickness and aortic diameter in near-term fetuses: a comparative cross-sectional study	4
Cardiovascular and renal profiles in rat offspring that do not undergo catch-up growth after exposure to maternal protein restriction	4
Associations of maternal preterm birth with subsequent risk for type 2 diabetes in women from the women’s health initiative	4
Maternal exercise during pregnancy modulates mitochondrial function and redox status in a sex-dependent way in adult offspring’s skeletal muscle	4
Latent growth analysis of children’s height growth trajectories	4
Birth weight and adult earnings: a systematic review and meta-analysis	4
Factors associated with low birthweight among late preterm singletons in Japan using pregnancy birth registry data	4
Effects of uteroplacental insufficiency on cardiac development in growth-restricted newborn rats	4
Developmental Origins of Health and Disease, resilience and social justice in the COVID era	4
In This Issue	4
High-fat diet during pregnancy lowers fetal weight and has a long-lasting adverse effect on brown adipose tissue in the offspring	4
Association between vitamin levels and obesity in the national health and nutrition examination surveys 2017 to 2018	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
Associations of offspring birthweight and placental weight with subsequent parental coronary heart disease: survival regression using the walker cohort	3
Public knowledge and opinion of epigenetics and epigenetic concepts	3
Body composition during the first 4 months in infants affected by neonatal abstinence syndrome: a pilot study	3
The co-occurrence and cumulative prevalence of hypertension, rheumatoid arthritis, and hypothyroidism in preterm-born women in the Women’s Health Initiative	3
Respiratory viral infections during pregnancy: effects of SARS-CoV-2 and other related viruses over the offspring	3
Early postnatal exposure of rat pups to methylglyoxal induces oxidative stress, inflammation and dysmetabolism at adulthood	3
COVID-19 age-dependent immunology and clinical outcomes: implications for vaccines	3
Involuntary tobacco smoke exposures from conception to 18 years increase midlife cardiometabolic disease risk: a 40-year longitudinal study	3
The impact of adversities across the lifespan on psychological symptom profiles in late adulthood: a latent profile analysis	3
Treatment with topiramate in rats during childhood causes testicular structural impairment at adulthood	3
Long-term outcomes of visual motor integration and motor development children with retinopathy of prematurity	3
In This Issue	3
Maternal intake of fructose or artificial sweetener during pregnancy and lactation has persistent effects on metabolic and reproductive health of dams post-weaning	3
The effect of season of birth on brain epigenome-wide DNA methylation of older adults	3
Obese mothers supplemented with melatonin during gestation and lactation ameliorate the male offspring’s pancreatic islet cellular composition and beta-cell function	3
Maternal BMI, breastfeeding and perinatal factors that influence early childhood growth trajectories: a scoping review	3
Financial hardship and caregiver and child mental health during the 3 years of the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia	3
Low protein uptake during peripuberty impairs the testis, epididymis, and spermatozoa in pubertal and adult Wistar rats	3
Investigating the IGF axis as a pathway for intergenerational effects	3
The role of genetics in fetal programming of adult cardiometabolic disease	3
Bocconia frutescens L. induces neurological defects in rat offspring	3

Placental nanoparticle gene therapy normalizes gene expression changes in the fetal liver associated with fetal growth restriction in a fetal sex-specific manner	3
Circulating microRNAs from early childhood and adolescence are associated with pre-diabetes at 18 years of age in women from the PMNS cohort	3
Early-life disease environment and adult height in historical populations	3
Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on research and careers of early career researchers: a DOHaD perspective	3
The role of maternal diet on offspring hyperinsulinaemia and adiposity after birth: a systematic review of randomised controlled trials	3
A systematic review exploring evidence for adolescent understanding of concepts related to the developmental origins of health and disease	3
Protein restriction during peripubertal period impairs endothelial aortic function in adult male Wistar rats	2
Nicotine exposure during breastfeeding alters the expression of endocannabinoid system biomarkers in female but not in male offspring at adulthood	2
Epigenetics and DOHaD: how translation to predictive testing will require a better public understanding	2
Maternal birth weight is an indicator of preterm delivery: the Japan environment and children’s study	2
Gut lumen formation defect can cause intestinal atresia: evidence from histological studies of human embryos and intestinal atresia septum	2
Maternal childhood maltreatment: associations to offspring brain volume and white matter connectivity	2
The fetal origins of disease: a prospective cohort study on the association of preeclampsia and childhood obesity	2
Late effects of early weaning on food preference and the dopaminergic and endocannabinoid systems in male and female rats	2
Early postnatal overnutrition impairs VO_2max gains with moderate exercise and increase post-exercise muscle damage in adult male rats	2
Attenuated glucose-stimulated insulin secretion during an acute IGF-1 LR3 infusion into fetal sheep does not persist in isolated islets	2
Are there sex differences in fetal growth strategies and in the long-term effects of pregnancy complications on cognitive functioning?	2
In utero Ramadan exposure and child nutrition	2
Cardiovascular risk factors in extended family members and birthweight in offspring	2
Gestational weight gain is associated with childhood height, weight and BMI in the Peri/Postnatal Epigenetic Twins Study	2
Exposure to maternal hyperglycemia and high-fat diet consumption after weaning in rats: repercussions on periovarian adipose tissue	2
Leptin administration during lactation leads to different nutritional, biometric, hemodynamic, and cardiac outcomes in prepubertal and adult female Wistar rats	2
Birth weight and cardiometabolic risk factors: a discordant twin study in the UK Biobank	2
Supplemental folic acid and/or multivitamins in pregnancy is associated with a decreased risk of childhood and adolescent nasopharyngeal carcinoma	2
Association of chemerin gene promoter methylation in maternal blood and breast milk during gestational diabetes	2
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,	2
Understanding the importance of the early-life period for adult health: a systematic review	2
In This Issue	2
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
Prenatal trimester-specific intake of micronutrients: global DNA methylation and hydroxymethylation at birth and persistence in childhood	1
Maternal prenatal and postnatal psychological distress trajectories and impact on cognitive development in 4-year-old children: the Japan Environment and Children’s Study	1
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	1
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	1
Neurosteroid replacement therapy using tiagabine and zuranolone restores cerebellar neurodevelopment and reduces hyperactive behaviour following preterm birth	1
Association between chest-to-head circumference ratio at birth and childhood neurodevelopment: the Japan Environment and Children’s Study	1
In This Issue	1
Author response to: Cardiovascular risk factors in offspring exposed to gestational diabetes mellitus in utero: systematic review and meta-analysis – ERRATUM	1
Associations of maternal glucose markers in pregnancy with cord blood glucocorticoids and child hair cortisol levels	1
Sodium overload during postnatal phases impairs diastolic function and exacerbates reperfusion arrhythmias in adult rats	1
Developmental origins of health and disease knowledge is associated with diet quality in preconception young adult men and women	1
The impact a Mediterranean Diet in the third trimester of pregnancy has on neonatal body fat percentage	1
Maternal exposure to purified versus grain-based diet during early lactation in mice affects offspring growth and reduces responsivity to Western-style diet challenge in adulthood	1
In This Issue	1
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	1
Human milk polyunsaturated fatty acids are related to neurodevelopmental, anthropometric, and allergic outcomes in early life: a systematic review	1
Preventive effects of kefir on colon tumor development in Wistar rats: gut microbiota critical role	1
Developmental programming of mitochondrial substrate metabolism in skeletal muscle of adult sheep by cortisol exposure before birth	1
Intrauterine exposure to a high-fat diet, with different levels of lipids, and its gastrointestinal repercussions: a model of fetal programming in rats	1
Puberty as a DOHaD programming window: high-fat diet induces long-term hepatic dysfunction in male rats	1
Supplementation of diet with Astaxanthin and DHA prevents gestational and lactational undernourishment-induced metabolic derangements in dams: a metabolomic approach	1
In This Issue	1
Maternal protein restriction during the lactation period disrupts the ontogenetic development of behavioral traits in male Wistar rat offspring	1
Association between maternal prepregnancy body mass index with offspring cardiometabolic risk factors: analysis of three Brazilian birth cohorts	1
Associations between early infections and childhood cognition in the Newcastle Thousand Families Study birth cohort	1
Early-life family meal participation and anthropometric measures at 4 years of age	1
In This Issue	1
Adverse pregnancy outcomes are associated with shorter telomere length in the 17-year-old child	1
DNA methylation mediates a randomized controlled trial home-visiting intervention during pregnancy and the Bayley infant’s cognitive scores at 12 months of age	1
Tackling inequalities in preconception health and care: barriers, facilitators and recommendations for action from the 2023 UK preconception EMCR network conference	1
Associations among rearing environment and the infant gut microbiome with early-life neurodevelopment and cognitive development in a nonhuman primate model (Macaca mulatta)	1
Author response to: Cardiovascular risk factors in offspring exposed to gestational diabetes mellitus in utero: systematic review and meta-analysis	1
Supplementation of the maternal diet with Brazil nut (Bertholletia excelsa H.B.K.) prevents cognitive impairment in the offspring of obese mothers	1
Challenges in using data on fathers/partners to study prenatal exposures and offspring health	1
Maternal soy protein isolate diet during lactation programs deleterious effects on hepatic lipid metabolism, atherogenic indices, and function of adrenal in adult rat offspring	1
Growth from birth to 6 months of infants with and without intrauterine preeclampsia exposure	1
In This Issue	1
Associations between epigenome-wide DNA methylation and height-related traits among Sub-Saharan Africans: the RODAM study	1
Letter to the editor regarding “Cardiovascular risk factors in offspring exposed to gestational diabetes mellitus in utero: systematic review and meta-analysis”	1