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Exercise in pregnancy: 1-year and 7-year follow-ups of mothers and offspring after a randomized controlled trial

There are limited data on long-term outcomes of mothers or their offspring following exercise interventions during pregnancy. We assessed long-term effects of an exercise intervention (home-based stationary cycling) between 20–36 weeks of gestation on anthropometry and body composition in mothers an...

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Autores principales: Chiavaroli, Valentina, Hopkins, Sarah A., Derraik, José G. B., Biggs, Janene B., Rodrigues, Raquel O., Brennan, Christine H., Seneviratne, Sumudu N., Higgins, Chelsea, Baldi, James C., McCowan, Lesley M. E., Cutfield, Wayne S., Hofman, Paul L.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6110723/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30150651
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-30925-5
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Sumario:There are limited data on long-term outcomes of mothers or their offspring following exercise interventions during pregnancy. We assessed long-term effects of an exercise intervention (home-based stationary cycling) between 20–36 weeks of gestation on anthropometry and body composition in mothers and offspring after 1 and 7 years. 84 women were randomised to intervention or usual activity, with follow-up data available for 61 mother-child pairs (38 exercisers) at 1 year and 57 (33 exercisers) at 7 years. At 1 year, there were no observed differences in measured outcomes between mothers and offspring in the two groups. At the 7-year follow-up, mothers were mostly similar, except that exercisers had lower systolic blood pressure (−6.2 mmHg; p = 0.049). However, offspring of mothers who exercised during pregnancy had increased total body fat (+3.2%; p = 0.034) and greater abdominal (+4.1% android fat; p = 0.040) and gynoid (+3.5% gynoid fat; p = 0.042) adiposity compared with controls. Exercise interventions beginning during pregnancy may be beneficial to long-term maternal health. However, the initiation of exercise during pregnancy amongst sedentary mothers may be associated with adverse effects in the offspring during childhood. Larger follow-up studies are required to investigate long-term effects of exercise in pregnancy.