Ideal Cardiovascular Health and Vascular Phenotype Associations in Mothers with Obesity and Their Six-Year-Old Children.
Linda LitwinJohnny K M SundholmJelena MeiniläJanne KulmalaTuija H TammelinKristiina RönöSaila B KoivusaloJohan G ErikssonTaisto SarkolaPublished in: Diabetes, metabolic syndrome and obesity : targets and therapy (2021)
Ideal Cardiovascular Health metrics are heterogeneously associated in mother-child pairs in early childhood. We found no evidence of child or maternal Ideal Cardiovascular Health effect on child arterial phenotype. Maternal carotid intima-media thickness predicts child carotid intima-media thickness, but the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. Maternal subclinical atherosclerosis is associated with local carotid arterial stiffness in early childhood.