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Intergenerational diabetes and obesity—A cycle to break?
Ronald Ma and Barry Popkin discuss a worsening epidemic of childhood and young-onset diabetes, exploring the intergenerational risk factors that must be addressed. Interventions targeting maternal diabetes, gestational diabetes and maternal obesity may not be enough, according to emerging research showing that in utero and early-life nutrition, for example, can be associated with increased risk in offspring of diabetes, obesity and younger-age onset. In this month's Editorial, the authors highlight interventions at different stages of the reproductive cycle and life course that aim to break intergenerational cycles of transmission.
Image Credit: Dani Lurie, Flickr
Citation: (2017) PLoS Medicine Issue Image | Vol. 14(10) October 2017. PLoS Med 14(10): ev14.i10. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.pmed.v14.i10
Published: October 31, 2017
Copyright: © 2017 Dani Lurie, Flickr. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Ronald Ma and Barry Popkin discuss a worsening epidemic of childhood and young-onset diabetes, exploring the intergenerational risk factors that must be addressed. Interventions targeting maternal diabetes, gestational diabetes and maternal obesity may not be enough, according to emerging research showing that in utero and early-life nutrition, for example, can be associated with increased risk in offspring of diabetes, obesity and younger-age onset. In this month's Editorial, the authors highlight interventions at different stages of the reproductive cycle and life course that aim to break intergenerational cycles of transmission.
Image Credit: Dani Lurie, Flickr