Maternal obesity and metabolic risk to the offspring: why lifestyle interventions may have not achieved the desired outcomes
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Maternal Obesity, Metabolic Health, and Prenatal Programming of Offspring Obesity
Children born to overweight and obese women, as compared to those of normal weight women, have greater risk for becoming obese themselves and suffering comorbid metabolic health problems. Evidence is accumulating that this increased susceptibility is at least partially attributed to a prenatal programming effect, whereby obesogenic factors in the intrauterine environment alter fetal development...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Obesity
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0307-0565,1476-5497
DOI: 10.1038/ijo.2015.15