Maternal obesity, gestational weight gain and diet as determinants of offspring long term health

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 627-639

  Poston, Lucilla ^a  

^a ST THOMAS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

developmental programming; diet; nutrition; obesity; offspring; pregnancy

Indexed keywords

AGOUTI RELATED PROTEIN; INSULIN; LEPTIN; MONOUNSATURATED FATTY ACID; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN; SATURATED FATTY ACID; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADIPOCYTE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHILD HEALTH; CHILDHOOD OBESITY; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DIABETES MELLITUS; ENERGY BALANCE; EPIGENETICS; ETHNICITY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FOOD COMPOSITION; FOOD PREFERENCE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC TRAIT; GLUCOSE HOMEOSTASIS; HEREDITY; HIGH RISK PREGNANCY; HUMAN; HYPERINSULINEMIA; HYPERPHAGIA; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTHALAMUS; INSULIN RELEASE; MATERNAL NUTRITION; MATERNAL OBESITY; NEOPLASM; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PLACENTA WEIGHT; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREVALENCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SATIETY; WEIGHT GAIN; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ANIMALS; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; DIET; ENERGY INTAKE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; OBESITY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 84866418240     PISSN: 1521690X     EISSN: 15321908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beem.2012.03.010     Document Type: Review

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