Parental population exposure to historical socioeconomic and political periods and grand-child’s birth weight in the Lifeways Cross-Generation Cohort Study in the Republic of Ireland

Exposure to deprived socioeconomic conditions during the peri-conception and early childhood periods can have a negative long-term impact on individuals’ health and that of their progeny. We aimed to examine whether relatives’ birth period affected index-child (grand-child) birthweight status in the...

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Main Authors: Cilia Mejia-Lancheros, John Mehegan, Ricardo Segurado, Celine Murrin, Cecily Kelleher
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2018-04-01
Series:SSM: Population Health
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352827317300812