Prenatal environmental exposures associated with sex differences in childhood obesity and neurodevelopment.
Alejandro CáceresNatàlia Carreras-GalloSandra AndrusaityteMariona BustamanteÁngel CarracedoLeda ChatziVarun B DwarakaRegina GrazulevicieneKristine Bjerve GutzkowJohanna LepeuleLéa MaitreTavis L MendezMark NieuwenhuijsenRemy SlamaRyan SmithNikos StratakisCathrine ThomsenJose UrquizaHannah WentJohn WrightTiffany YangMaribel CasasMartine VrijheidJuan R GonzálezPublished in: BMC medicine (2023)
The risk of obesity can be different for boys and girls in certain prenatal environments. We identified an environment combining four exposure levels that protect girls from obesity and neurodevelopment delay. The combination of single exposures into multiexposure profiles using causal inference can help determine populations at risk.