Conversion therapy can have life-long effects on its victims.
Though Varon refrained from giving an update about her current condition, he noted, "Generally these types of cases have devastating, life-long effects on their victims".
This study and other studies suggest that exposure to severe stress during the critical period that surrounds pregnancy may have life-long effects on the offspring.
In considering the developmental origins of health, puberty, as well as fetal and early life, should be considered as a key developmental window, with potentially life-long effects on health.
It is possible that a significant proportion of the mothers in the present study cohort were vitamin D deficient, which may have life-long effects on bone health in the offspring [34].
These data indicate that prenatal exposure to sGC has life-long effects on organ methylation resulting in profound demethylation in adulthood.
These events have relatively little effect on migration pathways, but can have decades-long effects on habitat quality several kilometers downstream (Johnson 1990).
For example, roughly 165 million children under five are suffering from stunting – which can have life-long effects on a child's early brain development, health and future productivity.
More specifically, hormones produce effects during development that can either have direct effects on the adult offspring or life-long effects on the way the individual responds to various hormones as adults.
Recent studies have provided strong experimental evidence that exposure to testicular hormones during adolescence has life-long effects on brain development and behaviour in rodents (e.g. Ahmed et al., 2008; Romeo et al., 2003; Schulz et al., 2003, 2004, 2006; reviewed by Schulz et al., 2009; Sisk and Zehr, 2005).
