2023
À partir des données de l'étude Elfe, l'association entre le respect des recommandations nutritionnelles pendant la grossesse et le neurodéveloppement des enfants a été étudiée. Blandine de Lauzon-Guillain, chercheure épidémiologiste à l'Inrae, répond à nos questions dans cette courte interview
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2021
Le périmètre crânien est un indicateur majeur du bon développement du cerveau. Pour surveiller son bon développement, les praticiens s’appuient sur des courbes de référence nationales. En France, les dernières courbes de croissances avaient été construites sur un petit échantillon d’environ 600 enfants nés en 1953 et 1954 [...]
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2020
Les problèmes de sommeil signalés par les parents touchent 20 à 30 % des nourrissons. Peu d’études se sont intéressées aux liens entre les pratiques d’alimentation des nourrissons et le sommeil, notamment en France. Sabine Plancoulaine, chercheure à l’Inserm, associée à l’étude Elfe, nous présente ses résultats sur le sommeil et l’alimentation des nourrissons.
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2020
The early years are a vital window of opportunity for improving children’s future health prospects across the lifespan. There is mounting evidence to suggest that exposure to early-life stressors (environment, lifestyle, migration, etc.) has an impact on subsequent health trajectories, as well as on the risk of developing certain diseases in adulthood. Moreover, geographical, socio-economic and ethnic differences are linked to health inequalities from infancy onwards. [...]
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2018
Little is know about the prevalence of respiratory disease in early childhood, which is why the Elfe families were asked about their children’s wheezing and other respiratory symptoms at 2 months and again at 1 year.
Analysis showed that 77.2% of the infants remained symptom free (controls), 2.1% had wheezing at 2 months but not at 1 year (intermittent) [...]
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2016
In line with recommendations, vaccine coverage is higher in Île-de-France (59.5%) than among at-risk children living outside this region (46.7%). Where both parents come from a country with a high rate of TB, coverage is 80.5% for children under 3 months in Île-de-France and 60.4% elsewhere.
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2020
The quality of sleep in early infancy is key to children’s physical and brain development. Sleep of insufficient quality or quantity has a negative impact on children’s physical and mental health, as well as on their cognitive functions, behaviour, and academic success. To ensure that children fall asleep ‑ and stay asleep ‑ in the best possible conditions, parents, healthcare professionals and teachers need to be aware of these characteristics so that they can establish appropriate bedtime routines. [...]
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2015
The early prenatal interview (EPI) serves to identify the mental and physical health needs of couples and gauge their social environment during the perinatal period. The childbirth and parenting programme (BPP) provides health education. Among the Elfe mothers, 33% had had an EPI and 52% had attended a BPP.
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2015
Analyses show that tobacco and alcohol use during pregnancy is higher among women born in France than among those born abroad (tobacco: 21.9 vs. 8.8%; alcohol: 40.4 vs. 22.9%). However, women born abroad who live alone have a particularly high probability of alcohol use.
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2015
In the Elfe study, 12.6% of mothers stated that they had experienced psychological distress during their pregnancy. This distress was more frequent among women who had already had several pregnancies, used tobacco or alcohol, whose pregnancy was unplanned and unwanted, or who had had medical complications during pregnancy.
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