Mariana Luna
“Metabolic Indicating that programming” intrauterine Growing body of evidence supports the essential to offspring health in subsequent life stages. Adverse situations during this period of life, like maternal overweight or poor maternal diet, can influence neuroendocrine and energetic balance from the fetus through lifelong time1-7. Thus, impacts of maternal nutritional status on cardiovascular risk parameters in adolescent offspring have been increasingly observed1-3,8,9. However, recent studies, mainly in animals, have been indicating that pregnancy can affect the developing fetus in different ways, depending on sex, where boys would be more affected than girls 10-16.
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