Malamitsi-Puchner A, Briana DD, Giudice L, Di Renzo GC. Could children born to mothers with COVID-19 be more prone to non-communicable diseases? Acta Paediatr. 2021 Jan 12. doi: 10.1111/apa.15757. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33438264.

Although COVID-19 tends to affect older people more severely, women of reproductive age are not spared. Based on perinatal COVID-19 data we express concerns about theoretical adverse consequences particularly to the offspring, in the framework of non-communicable diseases, which develop slowly across the life-course. The trajectory of risk commences early, in adolescence and the pre/peri-conceptional period to the first years of life.