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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"later life health"”.
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The impact of early life adversity on later life health
<p>The preponderance of the literature on early life adversity suggests that adversity has negative effects on later life health; however, an emerging body of literature suggests that early life adversity may develop a sense of resilience in individuals. Drawing from life course perspective, the …
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Exploring the impact of maternal obesity on offspring renal morphology and later life health
… that exposure to adverse environments in early life including both maternal under and over-nutrition predisposes individuals to similar adverse traditionally adult onset diseases such as the metabolic syndrome. Epidemiological observations and animal models have highlighted that early life …
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Youths of the Chinese Cultural Revolution: A Study on Early Life Sent-down Experience and Later Life Health
The study of health inequalities has increasingly recognised that experiences in early life may have consequences for health problems in later life that unfold across the life course. Despite the accumulating evidence in the life course study on the early origins of adult health, the nature and …
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Exploring Trauma and Its Impact on Disabled Students: An Analysis Using the Future of Families Study
… trauma as an emotional reaction to a terrible life event like rape, violence, or natural disaster. When trauma is experienced by a child on a repetitive and pervasive basis, it is referred to as complex trauma (van der Kolk, 2005). Felitti et al. (1998) coined the term adverse childhood …
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Early Life Rainfall and Later Life Human Capital Outcomes in Bangladesh
<p>How does early life rainfall impact later life human capital outcomes in Bangladesh? This paper examines the effect of exogenous rainfall shocks that occur during individuals early-life on later life health, wealth and education outcomes of Bangladeshi women born between 1952-1988. I link …
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Genetic Determinants of Body Weight and Physical Maturation Across the Life Course
Evidence points to early life as a critical period of heightened susceptibility to factors that alter the risk of later-life non-communicable diseases. Two early life risk factors increasingly recognised as important for adult health are early puberty timing and childhood obesity. Both factors are …
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Neuroimmune and Developmental Mechanisms Regulating Motivational Behaviors for Opioids
<p>Opioid drug abuse represents a serious public health concern with few effective therapeutic strategies. A primary goal for researchers modeling substance abuse disorders has been the delineation of the biological and environmental factors that shape an individual’s susceptibility or resistance …
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Early Life Determinants of Metabolic and Reproductive Health
Events in early life have consistently been associated with health outcomes in later life. The ‘developmental origins’ theory first hypothesised that adverse conditions in-utero can lead to physiological adaptations in the developing foetus which have long lasting influences on health. This concept …