The Swedish Environmental Longitudinal, Mother and child, Asthma and allergy (SELMA) study aims to investigate the importance of early life exposure to environmental toxicants. The main focus is on endocrine disruptive compound (EDC) exposure during the pregnancy and infancy period and life style factors for the development of multiple chronic diseases/disorders in offspring children, such as birth outcomes including weight gain and later on overweight/obesity problems, asthma and allergies, reproductive effects (indicated by congenital defects in baby boys, anogenital distance (AGD), language delay and neurodevelopmental disorders (e.g. ASD).
Read more about the SELMA study:
Bornehag, C. G., Moniruzzaman, S., Larsson, M., Lindström, C. B., Hasselgren, M., Bodin, A., … & Janson, S. (2012). The SELMA study: a birth cohort study in Sweden following more than 2000 mother–child pairs. Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology, 26(5), 456-467. doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-3016.2012.01314.x
