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OBESITY FACTS
卷 7, 期 2, 页码 130-151出版社
KARGER
DOI: 10.1159/000362656
关键词
Pregnancy; Foetal programming; Obesity; Diabetes; Cardiovascular disease; Stress; Oxidative damage; Insulin resistance; HSD2; p66
资金
- EU (FP7)
- Italian Ministry of Health (Italia-Usa Project) [11US/14/1]
- European Foundation for the Study of Diabetes (EFSD) [2009]
- [278603]
- Medical Research Council [MR/K026992/1] Funding Source: researchfish
Europe has the highest proportion of elderly people in the world. Cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, sarcopenia and cognitive decline frequently coexist in the same aged individual, sharing common early risk factors and being mutually reinforcing. Among conditions which may contribute to establish early risk factors, this review focuses on maternal obesity, since the epidemic of obesity involves an ever growing number of women of reproductive age and children, calling for appropriate studies to understand the consequences of maternal obesity on the offspring's health and for developing effective measures and policies to improve people's health before their conception and birth. Though the current knowledge suggests that the long-term impact of maternal obesity on the offspring's health may be substantial, the outcomes of maternal obesity over the lifespan have not been quantified, and the molecular changes induced by maternal obesity remain poorly characterized. We hypothesize that maternal insulin resistance and reduced placental glucocorticoid catabolism, leading to oxidative stress, may damage the DNA, either in its structure (telomere shortening) or in its function (via epigenetic changes), resulting in altered gene expression/repair, disease during life, and pathological ageing. This review illustrates the background to the EU-FP7-HEALTH-DORIAN project. (C) 2014 S. Karger GmbH, Freiburg
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