Early-life residential green spaces and traffic exposure in association with young adult body composition: a longitudinal birth cohort study of twins.

Background: Globally, the rapid increase of obesity is reaching alarming proportions. A new approach to reduce obesity and its comorbidities involves tackling the built environment. Environmental influences seem to play an important role, but the environmental influences in early life on adult body composition have not been thoroughly investigated.

Lactational amenorrhoea among adolescent girls in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic scoping review.

Introduction: Fertility levels among adolescents remain high in many settings. The objective of this paper was to review the available literature about postpartum and lactational amenorrhoea among adolescents in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs).

Methods: We searched Medline, Embase, Global Health and CINAHL Plus databases using terms capturing adolescence and lactational or postpartum amenorrhoea.