ERC Starting Grant · 2024
>50% of all pregnancies occur in couples with overweight or obesity, leading to tremendous risks for pregnancy and long-term offspring cardiovascular complications. My hypothesis is that an embryonic obesogenic environment, induced by the mother and father-to-be, predisposes to placental and embryonic programming of cardiovascular diseases across the life course. This leads to the intergenerational cycle of the cardiovascular disease epidemic. Lifestyle interventions in pregnancy are emerging, but unsuccessful in improving pregnancy or offspring cardiovascular outcomes due to inadequate timing, unclear intervention targets and unpredictable outcomes. OBESE-EMBRYO aims to radically improve…
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