Browsing by Author "Fernández-Barrés, Sílvia"

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  • A meta-analysis of epigenome-wide association studies on pregnancy vitamin B12 concentrations and offspring DNA methylation
    Monasso, Giulietta S.; Fernández-Barrés, Sílvia; Bustamante Pineda, Mariona; Sunyer Deu, Jordi; Vrijheid, Martine; Felix, Janine Frédérique (Taylor & Francis, 2023)
    Circulating vitamin B12 concentrations during pregnancy are associated with offspring health. Foetal DNA methylation changes could underlie these associations. Within the Pregnancy And Childhood Epigenetics Consortium, we ...
  • Association of iron status and intake during pregnancy with neuropsychological outcomes in children aged 7 years: the prospective birth cohort Infancia y Medio Ambiente (INMA) study
    Arija, Victoria; Hernández-Martínez, Carmen; Tous, Mónica; Canals, Josefa; Guxens Junyent, Mònica; Fernández-Barrés, Sílvia; Ibarluzea, Jesús; Babarro, Izaro; Soler Blasco, Raquel; Llop, Sabrina; Vioque, Jesus; Sunyer Deu, Jordi; Julvez, Jordi (MDPI, 2019)
    Early iron status plays an important role in prenatal neurodevelopment. Iron deficiency and high iron status have been related to alterations in child cognitive development; however, there are no data about iron intake ...
  • Association of lifestyle factors and neuropsychological development of 4-year-old children
    O'Connor, Giselle; Julvez, Jordi; Fernández-Barrés, Sílvia; Navarrete-Muñoz, Eva-María; Murcia, Mario; Tardón, Adonina; Riaño, Isolina; Amiano, Pilar; Ibarluzea, Jesús; García Esteban, Raquel; Vrijheid, Martine; Sunyer Deu, Jordi; Romaguera Bosch, Dora (MDPI, 2020)
    Background: We aimed to assess how lifestyle factors such as diet, sleep, screen viewing, and physical activity, individually, as well as in a combined score, were associated with neuropsychological development in pre-school ...
  • Consumption of ultra-processed food and drinks and chronic lymphocytic leukemia in the MCC-Spain study
    Solans, Marta; Fernández-Barrés, Sílvia; Romaguera Bosch, Dora; Gracia Lavedan, Esther; Castaño Vinyals, Gemma; Kogevinas, Manolis; Casabonne, Delphine (MDPI, 2021)
    Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is the most common leukemia in adults in Western countries. Its etiology is largely unknown but increasing incidence rates observed worldwide suggest that lifestyle and environmental ...
  • Diet as a source of exposure to environmental contaminants for pregnant women and children from six european countries
    Papadopoulou, Eleni, 1985-; Haug, Line Småstuen; Sakhi, Amrit Kaur; Andrušaitytė, Sandra; Basagaña Flores, Xavier; Brantsaeter, Anne Lise; Casas Sanahuja, Maribel; Fernández-Barrés, Sílvia; Gražulevičienė, Regina; Knutsen, Helle Katrine; Maitre, Léa; Meltzer, Helle Margrete; McEachan, Rosemary R.C.; Roumeliotaki, Theano; Slama, Rémy; Vafeiadi, Marina, 1983-; Wright, John; Vrijheid, Martine; Thomsen, Cathrine; Chatzi, Leda (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 2019)
    Background: Pregnant women and children are especially vulnerable to exposures to food contaminants, and a balanced diet during these periods is critical for optimal nutritional status. Objectives: Our objective was to ...
  • Effect of walnut consumption on neuropsychological development in healthy adolescents: a multi-school randomised controlled trial
    Pinar-Martí, Ariadna; Gignac, Florence; Fernández-Barrés, Sílvia; Romaguera Bosch, Dora; Sala Vila, Aleix; Lázaro, Iolanda; Ranzani, Otavio; Persavento, Cecilia; Delgado, Anna; Carol, Albert; Torrent, Jaume; Gonzalez, Judith; Roso, Eduard; Barrera Gómez, Jose; López Vicente, Mònica, 1988-; Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark J.; Turner, Michelle C.; Basagaña Flores, Xavier; Sunyer Deu, Jordi; Julvez, Jordi (Elsevier, 2023)
    Background: Omega-3 fatty acids are critical for neuropsychological functioning. Adolescence is increasingly believed to entail brain vulnerability to dietary intake. The potential benefit on adolescent neurodevelopment ...
  • Gestational age at birth and body size from infancy through adolescence: an individual participant data meta-analysis on 253,810 singletons in 16 birth cohort studies
    Vinther, Johan L.; Fernández-Barrés, Sílvia; Vrijheid, Martine; Nybo Andersen, Anne-Marie (Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2023)
    Preterm birth is the leading cause of perinatal morbidity and mortality and is associated with adverse developmental and long-term health outcomes, including several cardiometabolic risk factors and outcomes. However, ...
  • Maternal consumption of seafood in pregnancy and child neuropsychological development: a longitudinal study based on a population with high consumption levels
    Júlvez Calvo, Jordi; Mendez, Michelle A.; Fernández-Barrés, Sílvia; Romaguera Bosch, Dora; Vioque, Jesus; Llop, Sabrina; Ibarluzea, Jesús; Guxens Junyent, Mònica; Avella García, Claudia B., 1982-; Tardón, Adonina; Riaño, Isolina; Andiarena, Ainara; Robinson, Oliver; Arija, Victoria; Esnaola, Mikel; Ballester Díez, Ferran; Sunyer Deu, Jordi (Oxford University Press, 2016)
    Seafood consumption during pregnancy is thought to be beneficial for child neuropsychological development, but to our knowledge no large cohort studies with high fatty fish consumption have analyzed the association by ...
  • Maternal exposure to air pollution during pregnancy and child's cognitive, language, and motor function: ECLIPSES study
    Iglesias-Vázquez, Lucía; Binter, Anne-Claire; Canals, Josefa; Hernández-Martínez, Carmen; Voltas, Núria; Ambrós, Albert; Fernández-Barrés, Sílvia; Pérez Crespo, Laura; Guxens Junyent, Mònica; Arija, Victoria (Elsevier, 2022)
    Prenatal exposure to air pollution, even at low levels, has been associated with negative effects on a child's neuropsychological functioning. The present work aimed to investigate the associations between prenatal exposure ...
  • Maternal iron status during pregnancy and attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder symptoms in 7-year-old children: a prospective cohort study
    Díaz López, Andrés; Canals-Sans, Josefa; Júlvez Calvo, Jordi; Fernández-Barrés, Sílvia; Llop, Sabrina; Rebagliato, Marisa; Lertxundi, Nerea; Santa Marina, Loreto; Guxens Junyent, Mònica; Sunyer Deu, Jordi; Arija, Victoria (Nature Research, 2022)
    Evidence suggests that iron status may be linked to symptoms of childhood attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), but there is little data available on the relationship between iron status in pregnancy and the ...
  • Maternal Mediterranean diet in pregnancy and newborn DNA methylation: a meta-analysis in the PACE Consortium
    Küpers, Leanne K.; Fernández-Barrés, Sílvia; Nounu, Aayah; Friedman, Chloe; Fore, Ruby; Mancano, Giulia; Dabelea, Dana; Rifas-Shiman, Sheryl L.; Mulder, Rosa H.; Oken, Emily; Johnson, Laura; Bustamante Pineda, Mariona; Jaddoe, Vincent W. V.; Hivert, Marie-France; Starling, Anne P.; de Vries, Jeanne H. M.; Sharp, Gemma C.; Vrijheid, Martine; Felix, Janine Frédérique (Taylor & Francis, 2022)
    Higher adherence to the Mediterranean diet during pregnancy is related to a lower risk of preterm birth and to better offspring cardiometabolic health. DNA methylation may be an underlying biological mechanism. We evaluated ...
  • Nutritional modulation of associations between prenatal exposure to persistent organic pollutants and childhood obesity: a prospective cohort study
    Cano-Sancho, German; Warembourg, Charline; Güil, Nuria; Stratakis, Nikos; Lertxundi, Aitana; Irizar, Amaia; Llop, Sabrina; Lopez-Espinosa, Maria-José; Basagaña Flores, Xavier; González, Juan Ramón; Coumoul, Xavier; Fernández-Barrés, Sílvia; Antignac, Jean-Philippe; Vrijheid, Martine; Casas Sanahuja, Maribel (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 2023)
    Prenatal exposure to persistent organic pollutants (POPs) may contribute to the development of childhood obesity and metabolic disorders. However, little is known about whether the maternal nutritional status during pregnancy ...
  • Paternal body mass index and offspring DNA methylation: findings from the PACE consortium
    Sharp, Gemma C.; Alfano, Rossella; Ghantous, Akram; Urquiza, José M.; Rifas-Shiman, Sheryl L.; Page, Christian M.; Jin, Jianping; Fernández-Barrés, Sílvia; Santorelli, Gillian; Tindula, Gwen; Pregnancy and Childhood Epigenetics (PACE) consortium (Oxford University Press, 2021)
    Background: Accumulating evidence links paternal adiposity in the periconceptional period to offspring health outcomes. DNA methylation has been proposed as a mediating mechanism, but very few studies have explored this ...
  • Prenatal exposure to perfluoroalkyl substances and cardiometabolic risk in children from the spanish INMA birth cohort study
    Manzano Salgado, Cyntia Beatriz, 1987-; Casas Sanahuja, Maribel; Lopez-Espinosa, Maria-José; Ballester Díez, Ferran; Iñiguez, Carmen; Martínez Muriano, David; Romaguera Bosch, Dora; Fernández-Barrés, Sílvia; Santa Marina, Loreto; Basterrechea, Mikel; Schettgen, Thomas; Valvi, Damaskini, 1983-; Vioque, Jesus; Sunyer Deu, Jordi; Vrijheid, Martine (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 2017)
    BACKGROUND: Perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) may affect body mass index (BMI) and other components of cardiometabolic (CM) risk during childhood, but evidence is scarce and inconsistent. OBJECTIVES: We estimated associations ...
  • Red blood cell omega-3 fatty acids and attention scores in healthy adolescents
    Pinar-Martí, Ariadna; Fernández-Barrés, Sílvia; Gignac, Florence; Persavento, Cecilia; Delgado, Anna; Romaguera Bosch, Dora; Lázaro, Iolanda; Ros, Emilio; López Vicente, Mònica, 1988-; Salas-Salvadó, Jordi; Sala Vila, Aleix; Júlvez Calvo, Jordi (Springer, 2022)
    Omega-3 fatty acids are critical for brain function. Adolescence is increasingly believed to entail brain vulnerability to dietary intake. In contrast to the abundant research on the omega-3 docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) in ...
  • Sleep duration in preschool age and later behavioral and cognitive outcomes: an individual participant data meta-analysis in five European cohorts
    Guerlich, Kathrin; Avraam, Demetris; Cadman, Tim; Calas, Lucinda; Charles, Marie-Aline; Elhakeem, Ahmed; Fernández-Barrés, Sílvia; Guxens Junyent, Mònica; Heude, Barbara; Ibarluzea, Jesús; Inskip, Hazel; Julvez, Jordi; Lawlor, Deborah A.; Murcia, Mario; Salika, Theodosia; Sunyer Deu, Jordi; Tafflet, Muriel; Koletzko, Berthold; Grote, Veit; Plancoulaine, Sabine (Springer, 2023)
    Short sleep duration has been linked to adverse behavioral and cognitive outcomes in schoolchildren, but few studies examined this relation in preschoolers. We aimed to investigate the association between parent-reported ...
  • The association between maternal ultra-processed food consumption during pregnancy and child neuropsychological development: A population-based birth cohort study
    Puig-Vallverdú, Júlia; Romaguera Bosch, Dora; Fernández-Barrés, Sílvia; Gignac, Florence; Ibarluzea, Jesús; Santa-Marina, Loreto; Llop, Sabrina; Gonzalez, Sandra; Vioque, Jesus; Riaño, Isolina; Fernández-Tardón, Guillermo; Pinar, Ariadna; Turner, Michelle C.; Arija, Victoria; Salas-Salvadó, Jordi; Vrijheid, Martine; Júlvez Calvo, Jordi (Elsevier, 2022)
    Background & aims: Maternal ultra-processed food (UPF) consumption during pregnancy may adversely affect child development. Pregnancy sugar-sweetened beverage consumption (as a part of UPF) has been associated with child ...
  • The EU Child Cohort Network's core data: establishing a set of findable, accessible, interoperable and re-usable (FAIR) variables
    Pinot de Moira, Angela; Fernández-Barrés, Sílvia; Vrijheid, Martine; LifeCycle Project Group (Springer, 2021)
    The Horizon2020 LifeCycle Project is a cross-cohort collaboration which brings together data from multiple birth cohorts from across Europe and Australia to facilitate studies on the influence of early-life exposures on ...
  • Urban environment and health behaviours in children from six European countries
    Fernández-Barrés, Sílvia; Fossati, Serena; Márquez, Sandra; Basagaña Flores, Xavier; Bont, Jeroen de; de Castro, Montserrat; Maitre, Léa; Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark J.; Romaguera Bosch, Dora; Urquiza, José M.; Chatzi, Leda; Vrijheid, Martine (Elsevier, 2022)
    Background: Urban environmental design is increasingly considered influential for health and wellbeing, but evidence is mostly based on adults and single exposure studies. We evaluated the association between a wide range ...
  • Urban environment and obesity and weight-related behaviours in primary school children
    De Bont, Jeroen, 1989-; Márquez, Sandra; Fernández-Barrés, Sílvia; Warembourg, Charline; Koch, Sarah; Persavento, Cecilia; Fochs, Silvia; Pey, Núria; de Castro, Montserrat; Fossati, Serena; Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark J.; Basagaña Flores, Xavier; Casas Sanahuja, Maribel; Duarte Salles, Talita, 1985-; Vrijheid, Martine (Elsevier, 2021)
    Background: Urban environments are characterised by many factors that may influence children's lifestyle and increase the risk of childhood obesity, but multiple urban exposures have scarcely been studied. Objective: We ...