Disease exposure in infancy affects women's reproductive outcomes and offspring health in southern Sweden 1905–2000
(2024) In Social Science & Medicine 347. p.1-10- Abstract
- Ample evidence demonstrates that early-life adversity negatively affects morbidity and survival in late life. We show that disease exposure in infancy also has a continuous impact on reproduction and health across the female life course and even affects early-life health of the next generation. Using Swedish administrative data, obstetric records, and local infant mortality rates as a measure of disease exposure, we follow women's reproductive careers and offspring health 1905–2000, examining a comprehensive set of outcomes. Women exposed to disease in infancy give birth to a lower proportion of boys, consistent with notions that male fetuses are more vulnerable to adverse conditions and are more often miscarried. Sons of exposed mothers... (More)
- Ample evidence demonstrates that early-life adversity negatively affects morbidity and survival in late life. We show that disease exposure in infancy also has a continuous impact on reproduction and health across the female life course and even affects early-life health of the next generation. Using Swedish administrative data, obstetric records, and local infant mortality rates as a measure of disease exposure, we follow women's reproductive careers and offspring health 1905–2000, examining a comprehensive set of outcomes. Women exposed to disease in infancy give birth to a lower proportion of boys, consistent with notions that male fetuses are more vulnerable to adverse conditions and are more often miscarried. Sons of exposed mothers are also more likely to be born preterm and have higher birthweight suggesting in utero out-selection. Exposed women have a greater risk of miscarriage and of male stillbirth, but their overall likelihood of giving birth is not affected. (Less)
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- van Dijk, Ingrid Kirsten LU ; Nilsson, Therese LU and Quaranta, Luciana LU
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- 2024-03-21
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- Contribution to journal
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- published
- subject
- keywords
- Early life exposures, Reproduction, Historical demography, Life course epidemiology, Intergenerational health transfers
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- Social Science & Medicine
- volume
- 347
- article number
- 116767
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- 1 - 10
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- Elsevier
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- scopus:85188592385
- ISSN
- 0277-9536
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.116767
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- How welfare shapes our future: Policies targeted at young children and their -effects over the full life course – a case study of southern Sweden, 1920 to the present day, FORTE
- Landskrona Population Study
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- English
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