Maternal Nutrition during Preconception, Pregnancy, and Lactation and Its Impact on Offspring Health
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Nutrition in Women".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 5 June 2024 | Viewed by 1168
Special Issue Editors
Interests: maternal nutrition and offspring health; nutrition and chronic disease; nutrition education; food education for children; pediatric nutrition
Interests: etiology of chronic disease and cancer; environmental endocrine disruptors and health; epidemiology; metabolic diseases; molecular epidemiology of cancer
Interests: nutrition epidemiology; maternal and child health; chronic disease risk factor cohort study; clinical trial study; public health
Interests: nutrition epidemiology; maternal and child health; nutrition and chronic disease; public health; big data for health care
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The theory of “developmental origins of health and disease (DOHaD)” was advocated by Professor David Barker in 1995. This theory emphasizes how nutrition during the first 1000 days in early life can have powerful long-term effects on health. Increasing evidence implicates maternal diet and nutritional deficiency as important determinants of offspring health during childhood and later in adult life. Nowadays, excessive gestational weight gain, maternal obesity and nutrition-related gestational complication have become prominent. Thus, there is an urgent need for studies on the consequences of this epidemic for offspring, as well as to explore the underlying mechanisms and effective interventions in women of childbearing age.
This Special Issue aims to collate recent high-quality research addressing maternal nutrition during preconception, pregnancy, lactation and its impact on offspring health. Maternal nutrition could include diet, nutritional state, nutrition-related complications, etc. We welcome submissions of both original research and reviews.
Dr. Lijun Wang
Dr. Chunxia Jing
Dr. Jiaomei Yang
Dr. Dan Liu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- maternal diet
- maternal nutrition
- offspring health
- obesity
- preconception
- pregnancy
- lactation
