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Asthma is a highly prevalent inflammatory condition, significantly affecting nearly six million U.S. children and impacting various facets of their developmental trajectories including neurodevelopment. Evidence supports a link between pediatric environmental exposures in two key areas: asthma and executive function (E.F.). E.F.s are a collective of higher-order cognitive processes facilitating goal-oriented behaviors. Studies also identify asthma-associated E.F. impairments in children. However, limited research has evaluated the inter-relationships among environmental exposures, asthma, and E.F. in children. This review explored relevant research to identify and connect the potential mechanisms and pathways underlying these dynamic associations. The review suggests that the role of the pediatric exposome may function through (1) several underlying biological pathways (i.e., the lung-brain axis, neuroendocrine system, and hypoxia), which could drive asthma and maladaptive E.F. in children and (2) the relationships between the exposome, asthma, and E.F. is a bidirectional linkage. The review reveals essential synergistic links between asthma and E.F. deficits, highlighting the potential role of the pediatric exposome.
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Arch Dis Child
August 2025
Université Paris Cité, Department of General Pediatrics and Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Necker-Enfants Malades hospital, Paris, Île-de-France, France.
Objective: To assess the proportion of pictures of sleeping infants or infant sleep environments that are inconsistent with safe infant sleep recommendations (SISRs) in the visual exposome of infant caretakers.
Design: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
Data Sources And Study Selection: In November 2023, we searched PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science and Google Scholar to identify studies evaluating the level of inconsistency between SISRs and pictures in public spaces.
Front Syst Biol
January 2025
Department of Genetics, School of Medicine, Louisiana State University Health Sciences, Center New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, United States.
Post-Acute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC or "Long COVID"), includes numerous chronic conditions associated with widespread morbidity and rising healthcare costs. PASC has highly variable clinical presentations, and likely includes multiple molecular subtypes, but it remains poorly understood from a molecular and mechanistic standpoint. This hampers the development of rationally targeted therapeutic strategies.
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August 2025
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, U.S..
Psychiatry lags in adopting etiological approaches to diagnosis, prognosis, and outcome prediction compared to the rest of medicine. Etiological factors such as childhood trauma (CHT), substance use (SU), and socioeconomic status (SES) significantly affect psychotic disorder symptoms. This study applied an agnostic clustering approach to identify exposome clusters "Exposotypes (ETs)" and examine their relationship with clinical, cognitive, and functional outcomes.
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December 2025
Department of Epidemiology and Data Science, Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
The steady rise in overweight and obesity in Europe disproportionately affects people and communities with a lower socio-economic position (SEP). Many obesity prevention approaches exist, but these have had limited reach and unsatisfactory effects thus far, especially in low-SEP populations. In this context, there is a need for implementation of effective individual-level and population-based preventive strategies that also tackle health inequalities.
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July 2025
Department of Clinical Sciences and Education, Södersjukhuset, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
Background: The joint impact of exposure to multiple urban environmental factors on asthma remains unclear.
Methods: We analysed data from 14 European cohorts to assess the impact of the urban exposome on asthma incidence across the life course. We linked three external exposome domains (air pollution, built environment, ambient temperature) to the participants' home addresses at baseline.