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Maternal Obesity and Gestational Weight Gain as Determinants of Long-Term Health

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Parental Obesity: Intergenerational Programming and Consequences

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This chapter addresses the prospect that obesity may begin at the earliest stages of life and that one of the determinants may be exposure to maternal obesity in utero or to extremes of maternal gestational weight gain.

Funding: National Institute of Health Research NIHR RP-0407-104522 and Biomedical Research Council at Guys and St Thomas’ Trust & King’s College London; Chief Scientist Office, Guys and St Thomas’ Charity, Tommy’s Charity.

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Patel, N., Poston, L. (2016). Maternal Obesity and Gestational Weight Gain as Determinants of Long-Term Health. In: Green, L., Hester, R. (eds) Parental Obesity: Intergenerational Programming and Consequences. Physiology in Health and Disease. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-6386-7_3

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