Intergenerational diabetes and obesity-A cycle to break?

PLoS Med. 2017 Oct 31;14(10):e1002415. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1002415. eCollection 2017 Oct.

Abstract

Ronald Ma and Barry Popkin discuss the urgent need and challenges to reduce intergenerational transmission of obesity and diabetes.

Publication types

  • Editorial

MeSH terms

  • Diabetes Mellitus / epidemiology
  • Diabetes Mellitus / prevention & control*
  • Ethnicity
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Intergenerational Relations
  • Obesity / epidemiology
  • Obesity / ethnology
  • Obesity / prevention & control
  • Obesity, Abdominal / epidemiology
  • Obesity, Abdominal / ethnology
  • Obesity, Abdominal / prevention & control*
  • Pregnancy
  • Prenatal Exposure Delayed Effects / epidemiology
  • Prenatal Exposure Delayed Effects / prevention & control*