Peter van den Hazel, Moniek Zuurbier, Wolfgang Babisch, Alena Bartonova, Marie Louise Bistrup, Gabriele Bolte, Chris Busby, Maureen Butter, Sandra Ceccatelli, Aleksandra Fucic, Wojtec Hanke, Carolina Johansson, Martina Kohlhuber, Marike Leijs, Christofer Lundqvist, Hanns Moshammer, Rima Naginiene, Alan Preece, Roberto Ronchetti, Georges Salines, Margaret Saunders, Greet Schoeters, Nikolaos Stilianakis, Gavin ten Tusscher, Janna G Koppe
BACKGROUND: Facts and hypotheses on the relationship between some children's diseases or disorders and external stressors during the developmental stage of a child, both prenatally and postnatally are described in literature. In this paper the following changes in patterns and causes of the main childhood illnesses are summarized and recommendations for actions are made. Prematurity. Intra-uterine growth restriction. Testicular dysgenesis syndrome. Type I and Type II diabetes. Asthma, atopy and hay fever...
October 2006: Acta Paediatrica. Supplement