Parental Obesity: Intergenerational Programming and Consequences

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Green, Lucy R. (Editor), Hester, Robert L. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Series: Physiology in Health and Disease
• Subjects: Medicine.; Gene expression.; Human physiology.; Health promotion.; Maternal and child health services.; Animal physiology.; Biomedicine.; Human Physiology.; Animal Physiology.; Gene Expression.; Maternal and Child Health.; Health Promotion and Disease Prevention.

In this book, leading figures in the field of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease provide up-to-date information from human clinical trials, cohorts, and animal physiology experiments to reveal the interdependence between parental obesity and health of the offspring. Obesity of the mother an...