Maternal Nutrition, Metabolic Factors and Offspring Health
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Nutrition in Women".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 October 2025 | Viewed by 894
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Interests: nutritional epidemiology; women’s health; maternal and infantile healthcare; phytochemicals and chronic diseases prevention; geriatric health; gut microbiota; food safety
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Dear Colleagues,
Growing evidence shows that maternal nutrition and metabolism from pre-conception to lactation exert long-lasting impacts on offspring health during the critical period of the first 1000 days of life. Mothers’ dietary intake shapes the production of metabolites that can cross the placenta and affect pregnancy outcomes and fetal development. Despite decreasing birth rates in developed countries, perinatal nutrition still receives great attention due to rising delivery age, increasing multiparity and potentially adverse outcomes related to assisted reproductive technology, as well as increasing prevalence of metabolic disorders worldwide.
For this Special issue, we request the submission of both original studies and review articles that focus on the influence of maternal nutrition across pre-conception, gestation or lactation on various offspring health outcomes. We hope that this Special issue offer will up-to-date knowledge and valuable, novel insights for health professionals and scientific researchers. Papers combining a high academic standard with a practical focus are especially welcome, with topics of interest including but not limited to the following:
- Original papers should be human studies with an either observational or interventional study design. Studies exploring potential mechanisms in animals or cells are welcome but need to be integrated with findings from human studies. Findings based on large-scale open databases or biobanks are welcome, especially in combination with local dataset. Studies on mendelian randomization or nutrigenomics are also welcome.
- Nutritional factors include but are not limited to dietary protein, carbohydrates, fatty acids, vitamins, minerals, phytochemicals and dietary patterns, as well as quality and quantity assessments. Dietary factors, in combination with environmental contaminants, are welcome, with particular interest in the assessment of the balance of health benefits and harmful effects. Submissions related to the evaluation of maternal nutrition using innovative strategies, such as epigenomics, gut microbiota, metabolomics, and lipidomics, are also of interest.
- Maternal metabolic conditions include but are not limited to gestational diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, obesity, gestational metabolic syndromes, fatty liver diseases, and thyroid dysfunction, as well as their respective risk factors.
- The health of offspring is a comprehensive topic, though we have a particular interest in fetal growth and development, adverse birth outcomes, infantile/childhood immune function, allergic diseases/infections, metabolic and cardiovascular diseases, and endocrinal or neurodevelopment disorders.
Dr. Zhaomin Liu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- perinatal nutrition
- dietary factors
- metabolic factors or conditions
- endocrinal health
- gestational complications
- birth outcomes
- childhood immune function
- allergic disorders
- infectious diseases
- cardiometabolic risk
- neurodevelopment disorders
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