title: [The effects of prenatal environmental exposures on children development and health].
abstract: The negative effects of environmental exposure during pregnancy on fetal growth and children development have been confirmed. It has been found that environmental exposures during pregnancy have a great influence on the growth and development of fetus, birth outcomes and children's psychology, behavior and neural development. In this review, according to different types of environmental exposures, we focused on the key issues of the fetus or children induced by four aspects of environment exposure, including environmental chemicals, unhealthy life styles and behaviors, stress and other risk factors, and discussed the adverse effects of environmental factors on the growth and development of infants, children's psychology, behavior, social and cognitive, such as birth defects, autism spectrum disorders, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, emotional problems, learning disorder and intelligence development and so on. We also suggested that the researches on mechanism of the negative effects of environmental exposure on children's health should be strengthened in the future.
authors.affiliation: Department of Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health, School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University; Anhui Provincial Key Laboratory of Population Health & Aristogenics, Hefei 230032, China.
authors.forename: Shuman
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Tao
authors.forename: Fangbiao
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Tao
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development; D004781:Environmental Exposure; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011247:Pregnancy; D011297:Prenatal Exposure Delayed Effects / Q000453:epidemiology*; D012307:Risk Factors