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    Children’s microvascular traits and ambient air pollution exposure during pregnancy and early childhood: prospective evidence to elucidate the developmental origin of particle-induced disease

    Particulate matter exposure during in utero life may entail adverse health outcomes later in life. The microvasculature undergoes extensive, organ-specific prenatal maturation. A growing body of evidence shows th...

    Leen J. Luyten, Yinthe Dockx, Eline B. Provost, Narjes Madhloum in BMC Medicine (2020)

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    Establishing reference values for macro- and microvascular measurements in 4-to-5 year-old children of the ENVIRONAGE prospective birth cohort

    Cardiovascular risk factors are usually better tolerated, and can therefore be perceived as less harmful, at a young age. However, over time the effects of these adverse factors may persist or accumulate and l...

    Narjes Madhloum, Leen J. Luyten, Eline B. Provost, Patrick De Boever in Scientific Reports (2020)