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Origins of lifetime health around the time of conception: causes and consequences

Origins of lifetime health around the time of conception: causes and consequences
Origins of lifetime health around the time of conception: causes and consequences
Parental environmental factors including diet, body composition, metabolism and stress affect the health and chronic disease risk of people throughout their lives, as captured in the ‘Developmental Origins of Health and Disease’ (DOHaD) concept. Research across epidemiological, clinical and basic science fields has identified the period around conception as being critical in the processes mediating parental influences on the next generation’s health. During this time, from the maturation of gametes through to early embryonic development, parental lifestyle can adversely influence long-term risks of offspring cardiovascular, metabolic, immune and neurological morbidities, often termed ‘developmental programming’. We review ‘periconceptional’ induction of disease risk from four broad exposures: maternal overnutrition and obesity; maternal undernutrition; related paternal factors; and from the use of assisted reproductive treatment. Human studies and animal models demonstrate the underlying biological mechanisms, including epigenetic, cellular, physiological and metabolic processes. A novel meta-analysis of mouse paternal and maternal protein undernutrition indicate distinct parental periconceptional contributions to postnatal outcomes. We propose that the evidence for periconceptional effects on lifetime health is now so compelling that it calls for new guidance on parental preparation for pregnancy, beginning before conception, to protect the health of offspring.
Animals, Diet, Embryonic Development/physiology, Epigenesis, Genetic, Female, Fertilization, Humans, Mice, Obesity/physiopathology, Pregnancy, Prenatal Exposure Delayed Effects, Prenatal Nutritional Physiological Phenomena
0140-6736
1842–1852
Fleming, T.P.
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Hanson, Mark
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Gluckman, Peter D.
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Godfrey, Keith
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Fleming, T.P., Watkins, A., Velazquez, M.A., Mathers, J. C., Prentice, A.M., Stephenson, J., Barker, Mary, Saffery, R., Yajnik, Chittaranjan S., Eckert, Judith, Hanson, Mark, Forrester, T., Gluckman, Peter D. and Godfrey, Keith (2018) Origins of lifetime health around the time of conception: causes and consequences. The Lancet, 391 (10132), 1842–1852. (doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(18)30312-X).

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Parental environmental factors including diet, body composition, metabolism and stress affect the health and chronic disease risk of people throughout their lives, as captured in the ‘Developmental Origins of Health and Disease’ (DOHaD) concept. Research across epidemiological, clinical and basic science fields has identified the period around conception as being critical in the processes mediating parental influences on the next generation’s health. During this time, from the maturation of gametes through to early embryonic development, parental lifestyle can adversely influence long-term risks of offspring cardiovascular, metabolic, immune and neurological morbidities, often termed ‘developmental programming’. We review ‘periconceptional’ induction of disease risk from four broad exposures: maternal overnutrition and obesity; maternal undernutrition; related paternal factors; and from the use of assisted reproductive treatment. Human studies and animal models demonstrate the underlying biological mechanisms, including epigenetic, cellular, physiological and metabolic processes. A novel meta-analysis of mouse paternal and maternal protein undernutrition indicate distinct parental periconceptional contributions to postnatal outcomes. We propose that the evidence for periconceptional effects on lifetime health is now so compelling that it calls for new guidance on parental preparation for pregnancy, beginning before conception, to protect the health of offspring.

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Accepted/In Press date: 31 January 2018
e-pub ahead of print date: 16 April 2018
Published date: 5 May 2018
Keywords: Animals, Diet, Embryonic Development/physiology, Epigenesis, Genetic, Female, Fertilization, Humans, Mice, Obesity/physiopathology, Pregnancy, Prenatal Exposure Delayed Effects, Prenatal Nutritional Physiological Phenomena

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Local EPrints ID: 417666
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/417666
ISSN: 0140-6736
PURE UUID: fb85adf1-fb65-4fdb-a5db-96d9ef078e2f
ORCID for Mary Barker: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-2976-0217
ORCID for Mark Hanson: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-6907-613X
ORCID for Keith Godfrey: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-4643-0618

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Date deposited: 09 Feb 2018 17:30
Last modified: 16 Mar 2024 06:10

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Author: T.P. Fleming
Author: A. Watkins
Author: M.A. Velazquez
Author: J. C. Mathers
Author: A.M. Prentice
Author: J. Stephenson
Author: Mary Barker ORCID iD
Author: R. Saffery
Author: Chittaranjan S. Yajnik
Author: Judith Eckert
Author: Mark Hanson ORCID iD
Author: T. Forrester
Author: Peter D. Gluckman
Author: Keith Godfrey ORCID iD

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