Importance Counseling and active behavioral interventions to limit excess gestational
weight gain (GWG) during pregnancy may improve health outcomes for women and infants …

Congenital heart disease (CHD) is the most common anatomical malformation occurring live‐
born infants and an increasing cause of morbidity and mortality across the lifespan and …

Importance Excessive gestational weight gain (GWG) is common and associated with
adverse pregnancy outcomes. Antenatal lifestyle interventions limit GWG; yet benefits of …

OBJECTIVE Better preconception metabolic and nutritional health are hypothesized to
promote gestational normoglycemia and reduce preterm birth, but evidence supporting …

About one-third of women of reproductive age are obese, predisposing both mother and
baby to unfavourable pregnancy outcomes and initiating an intergenerational cycle of …

Maternal obesity has many implications for offspring health that persist throughout their
lifespan that include obesity and cardiovascular complications. Several different factors …

There is an ever increasing prevalence of maternal obesity worldwide such that in many
populations over half of women enter pregnancy either overweight or obese. This review …

Aims/hypothesis The aim of this study was to assess the interaction between genetic risk
and lifestyle intervention on the occurrence of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) and …

Background: Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is associated with short-and long-term
health issues for mother and child; preventing these complications is crucially important …

To address the intergenerational transmission of obesity and diabetes, strategies promoting
the health of women of reproductive age appear to be urgently needed. In this narrative …