Impact of early life exposure to heat and cold on linguistic development in two-year-old children: findings from the ELFE cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

A number of negative developmental outcomes in response to extreme temperature have been documented. Yet, to our knowledge, environmental research has left the question of the effect of temperature on human neurodevelopment largely unexplored. Here, we aimed to investigate the effect of ambient temperature on linguistic development at the age of 2 years-old.

Methods

We used data from the prospective national French birth cohort ELFE (N = 12,163) and highly-resolved exposure models with daily temporal resolution and 200 m to 1 km spatial resolution. We investigated the effect of weekly averages of overall, daytime and night-time temperature in the prenatal (first 30 weeks of gestation) and postnatal (91 weeks after birth) period on vocabulary production scores from

SUBMITTER: Barbalat G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11980264 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature