The steep rise of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and associated complications go along
with mounting evidence of clinically important sex and gender differences. T2DM is more …

Intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) affects 10–15% of all pregnancies worldwide. IUGR
may result from maternal, placental or fetal origin. Maternal malnutrition before and during …

Although the large data sets combining birth and placental weights, maternal and postnatal
nutrition, and health records are sparse for food animals, many controlled studies have …

There is growing evidence of long-term cardiovascular sequelae in children after in utero
exposure to preeclampsia. Maternal hypertension and/or placental ischaemia during …

Obesity, together with insulin resistance, promotes multiple metabolic abnormalities and is
strongly associated with an increased risk of chronic disease including type 2 diabetes …

Chronic exposure to light at night, as in shift work, alters biological clocks (chronodisruption),
negatively impacting pregnancy outcome in humans. Actually the interaction of maternal and …

Pregnancy is a critical time for long‐term blood pressure regulation in both mother and child.
Pregnancies complicated by placental insufficiency, resulting in pre‐eclampsia and …

Preeclampsia (PE) is now recognised as a cardiovascular risk factor for women. Emerging
evidence suggests that children exposed to PE in utero may also be at increased risk of …

Key points Light at night is essential to a 24/7 society, but it has negative consequences on
health. Basically, light at night induces an alteration of our biological clocks, known as …

Maternal obesity is a rapidly evolving universal epidemic leading to acute and long-term
medical and obstetric health issues, including increased maternal risks of gestational …