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- 8Villatoro, Valentin (Supervisor)
- 3Field, Catherine J.
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Maternal and Paternal Obesity Differentially Impacts Body Weight and Glycemic Control in Male and Female Offspring
DownloadFall 2018
As the rate of obesity is increasing among children born to obese parents, our aim was to delineate how parental obesity promotes obesity risk in the offspring. A secondary aim was to determine if offspring born to obese parents would also be at risk of developing obesity-related metabolic...
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Spring 2014
Chronic trauma in childhood can program an abnormal stress reaction, resulting in lifelong difficulties with stress management and poor health outcomes linked to changes in the immune system. At the same time, maternal stress during pregnancy has been linked to childhood asthma. Given the...
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Maternal Essential Fatty Acid Status During Pregnancy and Postpartum in the Alberta Pregnancy Outcomes and Nutrition (APrON) Study and Infant Outcomes
DownloadSpring 2017
Docosahexaenoic (DHA) and arachidonic (AA) acids are essential fatty acids found in breast milk and are important for the infant’s brain development and cognitive functions such as those that regulate sleep and crying. The overall goal of this research was to use a large maternal infant cohort,...
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Maternal Iron and Vitamin D Status During and After Pregnancy and Their Relationships With Maternal and Child Health Outcomes: Evidence From the APrON Cohort Study
DownloadSpring 2023
Background: Investigations that assess how maternal iron or vitamin D status biomarkers change across pregnancy and postpartum, and their relationships with maternal and offspring outcomes, in cohorts of healthy pregnant individuals from high-income countries are limited. Recent reports suggest...
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Maternal long chain polyunsaturated fatty acid status during pregnancy and lactation in the APrON cohort.
DownloadFall 2013
INTRODUCTION: Docosahexaenoic (DHA) and arachidonic acid (AA) are long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (LC-PUFA) that are essential for fetal and infant development. The overall aim of the study was to characterize DHA, EPA and AA status during pregnancy and lactation in the first cohort of the...
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Maternal Overweight Prior to Pregnancy and its Impact on the Infant Gut Microbiome and Subsequent Child Overweight Risk
DownloadSpring 2015
Background: Maternal overweight and obesity is a widespread problem in Canada that has been linked to many complications during pregnancy. The gut microbiome has been revealed to have origins during infancy, which might be influenced by maternal weight gain during pregnancy. It would be...