Event Detail

The workshop organised by the Metabolic Imprinting Task Force  aims to identify the key outstanding questions in the area of ‘Early life nutritional determinants of offspring obesity and its metabolic complications’ and define the optimal methodological approaches to answer these questions.

 

The objective of the workshop is to answer the following questions:

· Have we established an independent relationship between early life nutrition and offspring obesity and metabolic complications?
· If so, have we established the most important determinant and mechanism of the relationship?
· If not, what do we need to do to determine whether there is a relationship? Using existing data or setting up new mother-child studies.

 

Different methodological aspects will be addressed:
· Maternal dietary habits / status
· Maternal body weight, composition, and lifestyle
· Infant growth, body weight regulation and early risk factors

 

The outcome of the discussion will be collated in a scientific paper addressing how to improve mother-child study designs and make the best use of existing data.