Prenatal Chemical Exposure and Child Health Outcomes
A special issue of Toxics (ISSN 2305-6304). This special issue belongs to the section "Reproductive and Developmental Toxicity".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 January 2025 | Viewed by 142
Special Issue Editors
Interests: asthma; wheeze; respiratory health; child health; air pollution; particulate matter; metals; stress; prenatal exposure
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: prenatal exposure; asthma; wheeze; respiratory health; chemical exposures; atopic disease; child health; enviromental justice; environmental literacy
Interests: prenatal exposure; neurodevelopment; neurotoxicology; executive function; trace elements; metal mixtures, child development; childhood obesity; latent variable modeling
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
According to the developmental origins of health and disease (DOHaD) hypothesis, events experienced during critical periods of development, starting in utero, can impact health in ways that are not apparent until much later in life. Even relatively low-dose chemical exposures during the prenatal period can alter the maturation of organ systems and impact developmental trajectories that produce effects expressed across childhood. Exposure to chemicals during the prenatal period may lead to adverse birth outcomes, respiratory diseases, neurodevelopmental delays, metabolic dysfunctions, and other diseases. For this Special Issue, “Prenatal Chemical Exposure and Child Health Outcomes,” we would like to invite you to submit your novel research on the following topics:
- Novel analyses of environmental chemical mixtures and their health effects on children.
- Novel research addressing mechanisms underlying prenatal exposure’s adverse health effects.
- Intervention or mitigation studies.
- Syntheses of current knowledge and meta-analyses of existing data.
Dr. Maria José Rosa
Dr. Cecilia Alcala
Dr. Jamil Lane
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- chemical exposure
- children’s health
- birth outcomes
- environmental mixtures
- prenatal exposure
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