In addition to immediate implications for pregnancy complications, increasing evidence
implicates maternal obesity as a major determinant of offspring health during childhood and …

Prenatal care providers are advised to evaluate maternal weight at each regularly
scheduled prenatal visit, monitor progress toward meeting weight gain goals, and provide …

Epidemiologic and clinical research has provided a large body of evidence supporting the
developmental origins of health and disease (DOHaD), but there has been a relative dearth …

Maternal obesity is associated with pregnancy complications and increases the risk for the
infant to develop obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease later in life. However, the …

There is a growing body of evidence from both human epidemiologic and animal studies
that prenatal and lactational exposure to maternal obesity and high‐fat diet are associated …

Objectives To determine whether maternal obesity during pregnancy is associated with
increased mortality from cardiovascular events in adult offspring. Design Record linkage …

Maternal obesity during pregnancy is an important public health problem in Western
countries. Currently, obesity prevalence rates in pregnant women are estimated to be as …

Birth by caesarean section has been recently implicated in the aetiology of childhood
obesity, but studies examining the association have varied with regard to their settings …

An optimal early life environment is crucial for ensuring ideal neurodevelopmental
outcomes. Brain development consists of a finely tuned series of spatially and temporally …

The prevalence of maternal obesity has risen dramatically in recent years, with
approximately one in five pregnant women in the UK now classed as obese (body mass …