Early Human Development

Article	Citations
An overview of adult health outcomes after preterm birth	98
Withdrawn: Vaccine hesitancy among Maltese Healthcare workers toward influenza and novel COVID-19 vaccination	83
Unknown unknowns – COVID-19 and potential global mortality	58
Influenza vaccination in the COVID-19 era	56
Maternal influences on fetal brain development: The role of nutrition, infection and stress, and the potential for intergenerational consequences	56
Premature birth, low birth weight, small for gestational age and chronic non-communicable diseases in adult life: A systematic review with meta-analysis	55
Depression during pregnancy and the risk of low birth weight, preterm birth and intrauterine growth restriction- an updated meta-analysis	54
Infant feeding initiation practices in the context of COVID-19 lockdown	41
A pilot study demonstrating the impact of the supporting and enhancing NICU sensory experiences (SENSE) program on the mother and infant	35
The effect of global warming on mortality	34
WITHDRAWN: Vaccine hesitancy in the University of Malta Faculties of Health Sciences, Dentistry and Medicine vis-à-vis influenza and novel COVID-19 vaccination	33
Evaluation of the Ages and Stages Questionnaire (ASQ 3) as a developmental screener at 9, 18, and 24 months	33
Fatherhood during the COVID-19 pandemic: an unexpected turnaround	31
Neurodevelopmental outcomes in very preterm infants: The role of severity of Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia	31
WITHDRAWN: Vaccine hesitancy in Maltese family physicians and their trainees vis-à-vis influenza and novel COVID-19 vaccination	29
Promoting infant mental health in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU): A review of nurturing factors and interventions for NICU infant-parent relationships	29
Family Integrated Care (FICare): Positive impact on behavioural outcomes at 18 months	26
Childbirth related PTSD and its association with infant outcome: A systematic review	26
Withdrawn: COVID-19: A global and continental overview of the second wave and its (relatively) attenuated case fatality ratio	25
Neurological disorders vis-à-vis climate change	23
Understanding COVID-19: Digit ratio (2D:4D) and sex differences in national case fatality rates	23
Movements and posture in infants born extremely preterm in comparison to term-born controls	23
Early brain abnormalities in infants born very preterm predict under-reactive temperament	22
General Movement Assessment from videos of computed 3D infant body models is equally effective compared to conventional RGB video rating	22
Prenatal distress, access to services, and birth outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic: Findings from a longitudinal study	22

Neurodevelopment in infants with antenatal or early neonatal exposure to SARS-CoV-2	21
Maternal-fetal attachment and perceived parental bonds of pregnant women	20
Implementing a standardized screening protocol for parental depression, anxiety, and PTSD symptoms in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit	19
Gestational diabetes, environmental temperature and climate factors – From epidemiological evidence to physiological mechanisms	19
Paternal programming of offspring health	18
Do lifetime anxiety disorders (anxiety liability) and pregnancy-related anxiety predict complications during pregnancy and delivery?	18
Antenatal maternal anxiety, maternal sensitivity and toddlers' behavioral problems: An investigation of possible pathways	17
How babies learn: The autonomic socioemotional reflex	16
Early postnatal changes of circulating N-terminal-pro-B-type natriuretic peptide in neonates with congenital diaphragmatic hernia	16
Whole-body vibration in neonatal transport: a review of current knowledge and future research challenges	16
Pharmaceuticals and the environment	16
Prenatal opioid exposure – Increasing evidence of harm	16
Parents' experiences of emotional closeness to their infants in the neonatal unit: A meta-ethnography	16
Alberta Infant Motor Scale: Cross-cultural analysis of gross motor development in Dutch and Canadian infants and introduction of Dutch norms	15
Diagnostic value of fecal calprotectin in necrotizing enterocolitis: A meta-analysis	15
The influence of feeding method on a mother's circadian rhythm and on the development of her infant's circadian rest-activity rhythm	15
WITHDRAWN: To wear or not to wear? Adherence to face mask use during the COVID-19 and Spanish influenza pandemics	15
Artificial intelligence in medicine	15
Parent mental health and neurodevelopmental outcomes of children hospitalized in the neonatal intensive care unit	14
Changes in non-nutritive suck between 3 and 12 months	14
Interstitial lung disease in infancy	14
Successful breastfeeding among women with intention to breastfeed: From physiology to socio-cultural factors	13
Executive function deficits mediate the association between very preterm birth and behavioral problems at school-age	13
Associations between maternal technology use, perceptions of infant temperament, and indicators of mother-to-infant attachment quality	13
Morphine affects brain activity and volumes in preterms: An observational multi-center study	13
WITHDRAWN: COVID-19, its novel vaccination and fake news – What a brew	13
Early general movements are associated with developmental outcomes at 4.5–5 years	13
Self-regulation and emotional reactivity in infants with prenatal exposure to opioids and alcohol	12
The influence of breastfeeding on cortical and bio-behavioural indicators of procedural pain in newborns: Findings of a randomized controlled trial	12
Early life factors and COVID-19 infection in England: A prospective analysis of UK Biobank participants	12
Predicting physical activity in a national cohort of children born extremely preterm	11
The 2016 presidential election and periviable births among Latina women	11
Behavioral problems in very preterm children at five years of age using the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire: A multicenter cohort study	11
The stability of the Bayley scales in early childhood and its relationship with future intellectual abilities in a low to middle income country	11
‘Postnatal growth during the first five years of life in SGA and AGA neonates with reduced fetal growth’	11
Fetal bladder outflow obstruction: Interventions, outcomes and management uncertainties	11
Preterm infant heart rate is lowered after Family Nurture Intervention in the NICU: Evidence in support of autonomic conditioning	11
A two-pronged approach to reduce noise levels in the neonatal intensive care unit	10
New born pulse oximetry screening: A global perspective	10
Prenatal clubfoot increases the risk for clinically significant chromosomal microarray results – Analysis of 269 singleton pregnancies	10
Low cardiac output measured by bioreactance and adverse outcome in preterm infants with birth weight less than 1250 g	10
Enhancing breastfeeding establishment in preterm infants: A randomized clinical trial of two non-nutritive sucking approaches	10
Automation of oxygen titration in preterm infants: Current evidence and future challenges	10
Supporting Play, Exploration, and Early Development Intervention (SPEEDI) for preterm infants: A feasibility randomised controlled trial in an Australian context	10
Social support buffers the effects of maternal prenatal stress on infants' unpredictability	10
Neonatal pain, thalamic development and sensory processing behaviour in children born very preterm	10
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on developmental care practices for infants born preterm	10
Subgroup analysis of the early paracetamol trial to preterm infants found haemodynamic changes and improved oxygenation	10
Effects of maternal mental health on fetal visual preference for face-like compared to non-face like light stimulation	10
Early extubation is associated with shorter duration of mechanical ventilation and lower incidence of bronchopulmonary dysplasia	10

Changes in mortality rates among extremely preterm infants born before 25 weeks' gestation: Comparison between the 2005 and 2010 nationwide surveys in Japan	10
Association between the 2d:4d and cardiovascular risk factors: Body mass index, blood pressure and body fat	10
Gross motor development of Thai healthy full-term infants aged from birth to 14 months using the Alberta Infant Motor Scale: Inter individual variability	10
The clinical burden of extremely preterm birth in a large medical records database in the United States: Mortality and survival associated with selected complications	10
Effect of skin-to-skin contact at birth on early neonatal hospitalization	10
Socio-demographic factors related to parent engagement in the NICU and the impact of the SENSE program	10
Vulnerable child syndrome in the neonatal intensive care unit: A review and a new preventative intervention with feasibility and parental satisfaction data	9
Relationships between intelligence, executive function and academic achievement in children born very preterm	9
Second to fourth digit ratio (2D:4D) is associated with dementia in women	9
A breastfeeding support program changed breastfeeding patterns but did not affect the mothers' self-efficacy in breastfeeding at two months	9
COVID-19 and developmental origins of health and disease	9
Early visual and neuro-development in preterm infants with and without retinopathy	9
Outcomes following less-invasive-surfactant-administration in the delivery-room	9
Early receptive and expressive lexicons and language and pre-literacy skills at 5;0 years – A longitudinal study	9
Caregiver rating of early childhood development: Reliability and validity of the ASQ-3 in rural Guatemala	9
New strategies for the prevention of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV)	9
The quality of general movements in infants with complex congenital heart disease undergoing surgery in the neonatal period	9
Early intervention and its short-term effect on the temporal organization of fidgety movements	9
The impact of birthweight on the development of cerebral palsy: A population-based matched case-control study	9
Prevention of posttraumatic stress disorder in mothers of preterm infants using trauma-focused group therapy: Manual development and evaluation	9
The Infant Behavior Questionnaire – Revised: psychometric properties at 2 weeks, 3, 6 and 12 months of life	9
Echocardiographic measures of ventricular-vascular interactions in congenital diaphragmatic hernia	9
Inter-observer reliability using the General Movement Assessment is influenced by rater experience	8
Difficulties in developmental follow-up of preterm neonates in a randomised-controlled trial of Bifidobacterium breve M16-V — Experience from Western Australia	8
Radiographic digit ratios (2D:4D) of Afro-Caribbean children: Comparisons with published data from white children	8
Infant DNA methylation: an early indicator of intergenerational trauma?	8
Effectiveness of a home-based early cognitive-motor intervention provided in daycare, home care, and foster care settings: Changes in motor development and context affordances	8
Predictive validity of a qualitative and quantitative Prechtl's General Movements Assessment at term age: Comparison between preterm infants and term infants with HIE	8
Modeling a gross motor curve of typically developing Dutch infants from 3.5 to 15.5 months based on the Alberta Infant Motor Scale	8
The interaction between diabetes and climate change – A review on the dual global phenomena	8
Respiratory monitoring during less invasive surfactant administration in the delivery suite	8
Psychometric properties of the Spanish version of the Ages & Stages Questionnaires: Social–Emotional in a nationally representative sample	8
Growth trajectories of the human fetal brain in healthy and complicated pregnancies and associations with neurodevelopmental outcome in the early life course	8
Primary risk stratification for neonatal jaundice among term neonates using machine learning algorithm	8
Cognitive achievements in school-age children born following assisted reproductive technology treatments: A prospective study	8
Somatic growth in children with congenital heart disease at 10 years of age: Risk factors and longitudinal growth	8
Prenatal exposure to mixtures of persistent endocrine disrupting chemicals and postnatal body size in British girls	8
Aortic intima-media thickness in neonates exposed to early-onset preeclampsia	8
Maternal self-efficacy mediates the association between spousal support and stress among mothers of NICU hospitalized preterm babies	8
Executive functioning in 6 year old children exposed to chemotherapy in utero	8
A systematic review on brain injury and altered brain development in moderate-late preterm infants	8
Digit ratio (2D:4D) and its relationship to foetal and maternal sex steroids: A mini-review	8
The future of Cochrane Neonatal	8
Paths of social-emotional development before 3 years old and child development after 5 years old: Evidence from rural China	8
Second-to-fourth digit ratio and facial shape in Buryats of Southern Siberia	7
Long-term neuropsychological and behavioral outcome of mild and moderate hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy	7
Heart rate characteristics monitoring and reduction in mortality or neurodevelopmental impairment in extremely low birthweight infants with sepsis	7
Intra-uterine exposure to selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), maternal psychopathology, and neurodevelopment at age 2.5years — Results from the prospective cohort SMOK study	7
Results of a multicenter registry for congenital cytomegalovirus infection in Flanders, Belgium: From prenatal diagnosis over neonatal management to therapy	7
Voxyvi: A system for long-term audio and video acquisitions in neonatal intensive care units	7
Cardiovascular biomarkers in the evaluation of patent ductus arteriosus in very preterm neonates: A cohort study	7
Determinants of neonatal near miss in Australia: A multilevel analysis	7
Time to full enteral feeding after necrotizing enterocolitis in preterm-born children is related to neurodevelopment at 2–3 years of age	7
Folic acid supplementation is associated with size at birth in the Screening for Pregnancy Endpoints (SCOPE) international prospective cohort study	7
Impact of low-grade intraventricular hemorrhage on neurodevelopmental outcome in very preterm infants at two years of age	7
WITHDRAWN: Malta tourism losses due to second wave of COVID-19	7
Improving executive, behavioural and socio-emotional competences in very preterm young adolescents through a mindfulness-based intervention: Study protocol and feasibility	7
Psychosocial interventions and support programs for fathers of NICU infants – A comprehensive review	7
Nicotine replacement therapy and e-cigarettes in pregnancy and infant respiratory outcomes	7
Neonatal feeding performance is related to feeding outcomes in childhood	7
The ASQ-TRAK: Validating a culturally adapted developmental screening tool for Australian Aboriginal children	7
Cognitive and motor development in preterm children from 6 to 36 months of age: Trajectories, risk factors and predictability	6
Vitamin D and bone minerals in neonates	6
Fertility treatments and gastrointestinal morbidity of the offspring	6
Effects of Omega-3-6-9 fatty acid supplementation on behavior and sleep in preterm toddlers with autism symptomatology: Secondary analysis of a randomized clinical trial	6
Inflammatory predictors of neurobehavior in very preterm infants	6
Determination of normal values of optic nerve sheath diameter in newborns with bedside ultrasonography	6
Early neurobehavior at 30 weeks postmenstrual age is related to outcome at term equivalent age	6
Effects of small for gestational age status on mortality and major morbidities in ≤750 g neonates	6
Effect of early kangaroo mother care on time to full feeds in preterm infants - A prospective cohort study	6
WITHDRAWN: The way in which COVID-19 changed behaviour on social media in Malta	6
Language skills at corrected age 2;0 are poorer in extremely and very preterm boys but not girls compared with their full-term peers	6
Validity, reliability, and transcultural adaptations of the Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development (BSID-III-NL) for children in Suriname	6
Motor Optimality Scores are significantly lower in a population of high-risk infants than in infants born moderate-late preterm	6
Implementing NIDCAP training in a low-middle-income country: Comparing nurses and physicians' attitudes	6
The impact of choice of norms on classification of motor impairment for children born very preterm	6
Carboxyhaemoglobin levels and free-radical-related diseases in prematurely born infants	6
The assessment of the fetal heart function using two-dimensional speckle tracking with a high frame rate	6
Typical general movements at 2 to 4 months: Movement complexity, fidgety movements, and their associations with risk factors and SINDA scores	6
Parents as carers on a neonatal unit: Qualitative study of parental and staff perceptions in a low-income setting	6

Maternal alcohol and drug use during pregnancy affects the motor behaviour and general movements of infants aged 3–4 months	6
Psychometric properties of the ASQ–3 in a nationally representative sample of Uruguay	6
Towards multimodal brain monitoring in asphyxiated newborns with amplitude-integrated EEG and simultaneous somatosensory evoked potentials	6
Early feeding behaviours of extremely preterm infants predict neurodevelopmental outcomes	6
Assessing social-emotional development in infants and toddlers using parent-reports: Comparing the ASQ-SE-NL to the Social-Emotional Scale of the Bayley-III-NL	6
Parental sense of competence, paternal stress and perceived construction of the relationship with the premature newborn: A mixed method study	6
Early detection relationship of cerebral palsy markers using brain structure and general movements in infants born <32 weeks gestational age	5
Neonatal lung ultrasound: From paradox to diagnosis … and beyond	5
Patterns of atypical muscle tone in the general infant population - Prevalence and associations with perinatal risk and neurodevelopmental status	5
Childhood neurodevelopmental outcomes of survivors of acute bilirubin encephalopathy: A retrospective cohort study	5
Effects of continued positioning pillow use until a corrected age of six months on cranial deformation and neurodevelopment in preterm infants: A prospective case-control study	5
NIRS as a biomarker of bowel ischaemia & surgical pathology: A meta-analysis of studies in newborns	5
The impact of low birthweight in infant patterns of regulatory behavior, mother-infant quality of interaction, and attachment	5
Prediction of the need for phototherapy during hospital stay in preterm infants by transcutaneous bilirubinometry	5
Comparison of two markers of iron sufficiency and neurodevelopmental outcomes	5
Two-year motor outcomes associated with the dose of NICU based physical therapy: The Noppi RCT	5
Antenatally detected abdominal cyst: Does cyst size and nature determine postnatal symptoms and outcome?	5
The second to fourth digit ratio (2D:4D): A risk factor of bladder cancer in men	5
A pilot study to assess the safety, efficacy and ease of use of a novel hearing protection device for hospitalized neonates	5
PreEMPT (Preterm infant Early intervention for Movement and Participation Trial): Feasibility outcomes of a randomised controlled trial	5
COVID-19 and pregnancy: Lessons from 2020	5
The role of brain territorial involvement and infection/inflammation in the long-term outcome of neonates with arterial ischemic stroke: A population-based cohort study	5
Effects of skin-to-skin care on electrical activity of the diaphragm in preterm infants during neurally adjusted ventilatory assist	5
The effects of hand preference and sex on right-left asymmetry in dorsal digit lengths among adults and children	5
Preeclampsia: Maternal cardiovascular function and optimising outcomes	5
Modern, exogenous exposures associated with altered mammary gland development: A systematic review	5
Assortative mating and digit ratio (2D:4D): A pre-registered empirical study and meta-analysis	5
Anatomical deadspace during resuscitation of infants with congenital diaphragmatic hernia	5
Understanding COVID-19: A hypothesis regarding digit ratio (2D:4D), ACE I/D polymorphism, oxygen metabolism and national case fatality rates	5
Cephalocaudal progression of neonatal jaundice assessed by transcutaneous bilirubin measurements	5
Response to therapy among neonates with gastro-esophageal reflux is associated with esophageal clearance	5
Effects of hand preference on digit lengths and digit ratios among children and adults	5
Clinical factors associated with abnormal general movements of preterm newborns during hospitalization in a neonatal intensive care unit	5
Maternal obesity and offspring's cardiovascular morbidity – Results from a population based cohort study	5
Placental pathology as a marker of brain injury in infants with hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy	5
Erythropoietin is not a risk factor for severe retinopathy of prematurity among high risk preterm infants	5
WITHDRAWN: COVID-19: The possible seasonal shape of things to come	5
Randomised controlled trial of human derived breast milk fortifier versus bovine milk fortifier on body composition in very preterm babies	5
Validity of the vasoactive-inotropic score in preterm neonates receiving cardioactive therapies	5