Background There is a global obesity crisis, particularly among women and disadvantaged
populations. Early-life intervention to prevent childhood obesity is a priority for public health …

Context Mounting evidence suggests that the origins of childhood obesity and related
disparities can be found as early as the “first 1,000 days”—the period from conception to age …

Recent evidence indicates that perinatal exposure to maternal obesity, metabolic disease,
including diabetes and hypertension, and unhealthy maternal diet has a long-term impact on …

Introduction There is increasingly a double burden of under-nutrition and obesity in women
of reproductive age. Preconception underweight or overweight, short stature and …

Background Overweight is among the major challenging health risk factors. It has been
claimed that birth weight, being a critical indicator of prenatal developmental conditions, is …

Excessive gestational weight gain has been shown to relate to high-postpartum weight
retention and the development of overweight and obesity later in life. Because many women …

The prevalence of obesity among pregnant women is increasing. In addition to the short-
term complications of obesity during pregnancy in both mother and child, it is now …

Objectives. To systematically review the evidence from prospective and retrospective cohort
studies on the association between gestational weight gain (GWG) and offspring's body …

To determine how characteristics of pregnancy, birth, and early infancy are related to
offspring obesity at three critical developmental periods. Mothers were followed through …

This review addresses the increasingly prolific literature from studies in man and animals
suggesting that maternal obesity, a diet rich in calories or excess gestational weight gain …