An unwelcome inheritance: childhood obesity after diabetes in pregnancy

CL Meek - Diabetologia, 2023 - Springer
Diabetes in pregnancy affects 20 million women per year and is associated with increased
risk of obesity in offspring, leading to insulin resistance and cardiometabolic disease …

Obesity as malnutrition: the role of capitalism in the obesity global epidemic

JCK Wells - American Journal of Human Biology, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The global obesity epidemic remains poorly understood, partly because it has emerged
alongside persisting under‐nutrition in many populations. At an abstract level, obesity …

The relative importance of gestational gain and maternal characteristics associated with the risk of becoming overweight after pregnancy

EP Gunderson, B Abrams, S Selvin - International journal of obesity, 2000 - nature.com
OBJECTIVES: To assess the relationships between gestational gain, race/ethnicity,
reproductive history, age, education and the risk of becoming overweight after pregnancy …

The association of pregnancy and the development of obesity–results of a systematic review and meta-analysis on the natural history of postpartum weight retention

NM Schmitt, WK Nicholson, J Schmitt - International journal of obesity, 2007 - nature.com
Objective: The magnitude of the contribution of childbearing to the development of obesity is
not entirely understood. Published studies on postpartum weight retention focus on risk …

Persistent effects of women's parity and breastfeeding patterns on their body mass index: results from the Million Women Study

KL Bobrow, MA Quigley, J Green, GK Reeves… - International journal of …, 2013 - nature.com
Objective: To explore the long-term effects of women's childbearing patterns on their body
mass index. Design: Cross-sectional analysis. Setting: Population-based study of UK …

Is parity a risk factor for excessive weight gain during pregnancy and postpartum weight retention? A systematic review and meta‐analysis

B Hill, H Bergmeier, S McPhie… - Obesity …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The aim of this study was to systematically review and meta‐analyse the associations
between parity, pre‐pregnancy body mass index (BMI), gestational weight gain (GWG) and …

[HTML][HTML] Maternal and infant factors influencing human milk oligosaccharide composition: beyond maternal genetics

SM Han, JGB Derraik, A Binia, N Sprenger… - The Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Maternal genetics is a key determinant of human milk oligosaccharide (HMO) composition in
human milk. Beyond genetic status, other factors influencing the HMO profile are poorly …

A cross-sectional analysis of patterns of obesity in a cohort of working nurses and midwives in Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom

FE Bogossian, J Hepworth, GM Leong, DF Flaws… - International journal of …, 2012 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to examine the prevalence of overweight and obesity
and the association with demographic, reproductive work variables in a representative …

The reproductive ecology of iron in women

EM Miller - American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Reproductive ecology focuses on the sensitivity of human reproduction to environmental
variation. While reproductive ecology has historically focused on the relationship between …

Pre-pregnancy and pregnancy predictors of obesity

K Melzer, Y Schutz - International Journal of obesity, 2010 - nature.com
Obesity has progressively become a global epidemic that constitutes one of the biggest
current health problems worldwide. Pregnancy is a risk factor for excessive weight gain …