Association of pre-pregnancy body mass index with offspring metabolic profile: Analyses of 3 European prospective birth cohorts.
Association of pre-pregnancy body mass index with offspring metabolic profile: Analyses of 3 European prospective birth cohorts.
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怀孕前体重指数与后代代谢概况的关联:3个欧洲前瞻性出生队列的分析。
DOI:
10.1371/journal.pmed.1002376
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发表时间:
2017-08
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影响因子:
15.8
通讯作者:
Lawlor DA
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作者:
Santos Ferreira DL;Williams DM;Kangas AJ;Soininen P;Ala-Korpela M;Smith GD;Jarvelin MR;Lawlor DA
A high proportion of women start pregnancy overweight or obese. According to the developmental overnutrition hypothesis, this could lead offspring to have metabolic disruption throughout their lives and thus perpetuate the obesity epidemic across generations. Concerns about this hypothesis are influencing antenatal care. However, it is unknown whether maternal pregnancy adiposity is associated with long-term risk of adverse metabolic profiles in offspring, and if so, whether this association is causal, via intrauterine mechanisms, or explained by shared familial (genetic, lifestyle, socioeconomic) characteristics. We aimed to determine if associations between maternal body mass index (BMI) and offspring systemic cardio-metabolic profile are causal, via intrauterine mechanisms, or due to shared familial factors. We used 1- and 2-stage individual participant data (IPD) meta-analysis, and a negative-control (paternal BMI) to examine the association between maternal pre-pregnancy BMI and offspring serum metabolome from 3 European birth cohorts (offspring age at blood collection: 16, 17, and 31 years). Circulating metabolic traits were quantified by high-throughput nuclear magnetic resonance metabolomics. Results from 1-stage IPD meta-analysis (N = 5327 to 5377 mother-father-offspring trios) showed that increasing maternal and paternal BMI was associated with an adverse cardio-metabolic profile in offspring. We observed strong positive associations with very-low-density lipoprotein (VLDL)-lipoproteins, VLDL-cholesterol (C), VLDL-triglycerides, VLDL-diameter, branched/aromatic amino acids, glycoprotein acetyls, and triglycerides, and strong negative associations with high-density lipoprotein (HDL), HDL-diameter, HDL-C, HDL2-C, and HDL3-C (all P < 0.003). Slightly stronger magnitudes of associations were present for maternal compared with paternal BMI across these associations; however, there was no strong statistical evidence for heterogeneity between them (all bootstrap P > 0.003, equivalent to P > 0.05 after accounting for multiple testing). Results were similar in each individual cohort, and in the 2-stage analysis. Offspring BMI showed similar patterns of cross-sectional association with metabolic profile as for parental pre-pregnancy BMI associations but with greater magnitudes. Adjustment of parental BMI–offspring metabolic traits associations for offspring BMI suggested the parental associations were largely due to the association of parental BMI with offspring BMI. Limitations of this study are that inferences cannot be drawn about the role of circulating maternal fetal fuels (i.e., glucose, lipids, fatty acids, and amino acids) on later offspring metabolic profile. In addition, BMI may not reflect potential effects of maternal pregnancy fat distribution. Our findings suggest that maternal BMI–offspring metabolome associations are likely to be largely due to shared genetic or familial lifestyle confounding rather than to intrauterine mechanisms. Debbie Lawlor and colleagues assess the link between maternal pregnancy adiposity and disrupted childhood cardio-metabolic profiles and show that shared familial factors are responsible rather than intrauterine ones. It is unknown whether maternal pregnancy adiposity is associated with long-term risk of adverse metabolic profiles in offspring, and if so, whether this association is causal via intrauterine mechanisms or explained by shared familial (genetic, lifestyle, socioeconomic) characteristics. Our study was designed to unpick whether maternal pregnancy BMI–offspring metabolic traits associations were due to intrauterine mechanisms (involving overfeeding of the developing fetus) or shared familial characteristics (or both of these) by using paternal BMI–offspring metabolic traits associations as a negative control. If maternal associations represent causal intrauterine effects, as opposed to being due to shared familial factors, they should be stronger than paternal associations with the same metabolic traits. We looked at associations between maternal pre-pregnancy BMI and 153 offspring serum metabolic traits, in adolescence and adulthood, in 3 independent European birth cohorts (>10,000) and compared these to paternal BMI–offspring metabolic traits as a negative control. Paternal BMI was used as a negative control as it will share most of the confounders of the main exposure (maternal BMI) but could not directly influence offspring’s metabolic traits via an intrauterine effect. We found very little evidence of a markedly stronger association of maternal BMI with offspring outcomes. Our findings are more supportive of shared familial factors than intrauterine developmental overnutrition mechanisms for associations of maternal BMI with offspring metabolic traits. Interventions to reduce BMI in all family members may be more beneficial for cardio-metabolic health than focusing on reducing maternal pre-conception or pregnancy BMI.
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影响因子:
30.8
作者:
Kettunen, Johannes;Tukiainen, Taru;Sarin, Antti-Pekka;Ortega-Alonso, Alfredo;Tikkanen, Emmi;Lyytikainen, Leo-Pekka;Kangas, Antti J.;Soininen, Pasi;Wuertz, Peter;Silander, Kaisa;Dick, Danielle M.;Rose, Richard J.;Savolainen, Markku J.;Viikari, Jorma;Kahonen, Mika;Lehtimaki, Terho;Pietilainen, Kirsi H.;Inouye, Michael;McCarthy, Mark I.;Jula, Antti;Eriksson, Johan;Raitakari, Olli T.;Salomaa, Veikko;Kaprio, Jaakko;Jarvelin, Marjo-Riitta;Peltonen, Leena;Perola, Markus;Freimer, Nelson B.;Ala-Korpela, Mika;Palotie, Aarno;Ripatti, Samuli
通讯作者:
Ripatti, Samuli
影响因子:
8.3
作者:
Gaillard, Romy;Steegers, Eric A. P.;Jaddoe, Vincent W. V.
通讯作者:
Jaddoe, Vincent W. V.
影响因子:
2.1
作者:
Gao, Xiaoyi;Stamier, Joshua;Martin, Eden R.
通讯作者:
Martin, Eden R.
DOI:
10.1002/j.1550-8528.1999.tb00712.x
发表时间:
1999-11-01
期刊:
OBESITY RESEARCH
影响因子:
--
作者:
Katzmarzyk, PT;Pérusse, L;Bouchard, C
通讯作者:
Bouchard, C
影响因子:
5
作者:
Lawlor, Debbie A.;Smith, George Davey;Najman, Jake M.
通讯作者:
Najman, Jake M.