Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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2634589 | Nursing for Women's Health | 2016 | 9 Pages |
Abstract
Despite intensive focus and interventions at societal and individual levels, more than a third of people in the United States are overweight or obese, and childhood/adolescent obesity rates have dramatically increased during the past three decades. Biomedical research has shown a clear link between the prenatal environment and lifetime adiposity. Children born to overweight and obese women with impaired glucose metabolism show cardiometabolic consequences throughout their life spans that, in turn, affect their children's adiposity. Awareness of this intergenerational cycle of obesity can prompt nurses to intervene in the preconception, prenatal, and postnatal phases.
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Authors
Molly C. Purnell, Meredith A. MacKenzie,