@gabriconti.bsky.social🚨 NEW PAPER ALERT 🚨
Birth weight isn't the whole story. Birth length predicts health better — and among babies born small, whether the head kept growing while the body didn't predicts cognitive outcomes 30 years on.
Out now, open access: cup.org/4yGMwgA
#twins #dohad #birthweight
@placentadoc.bsky.socialCash transfers to low income mums may slow biological aging in children
“1000 low-income mothers were randomly assigned to receive $333 or $20 per month; by age 4, children in the higher-transfer group showed epigenetic markers linked to a slower pace of biological aging”