TY - JOUR
T1 - Lifestyle intervention in obese pregnancy and cardiac remodelling in 3-year olds
T2 - children of the UPBEAT RCT
AU - UPBEAT Consortium
AU - Taylor, Paul D
AU - Gu, Haotian
AU - Saunders, Hannah
AU - Fiori, Federico
AU - Dalrymple, Kathryn V
AU - Sethupathi, Priyanka
AU - Yamanouchi, Liana
AU - Miller, Faith
AU - Jones, Bethany
AU - Vieira, Matias C
AU - Singh, Claire
AU - Briley, Annette
AU - Seed, Paul T
AU - Pasupathy, Dharmintra
AU - Santosh, Paramala J
AU - Groves, Alan M
AU - Sinha, Manish D
AU - Chowienczyk, Philip J
AU - Poston, Lucilla
N1 - Funding Information:
British Heart Foundation (PG/13/38/30289); European Union’s 7th Framework Programme (FP7/2007–2013), project EarlyNutrition; grant agreement no. 289346 and the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR, UK) Programme Grants for Applied Research Programme (RP-0407-10452). LP is supported by Tommy’s charity and KVD by the BHF (FS/17/71/32953). This study also received support from the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre based at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and King’s College London. The views expressed in this publication are those of the author and not necessarily those of the NHS, the NIHR, or the Department of Health.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, The Author(s).
PY - 2022/12
Y1 - 2022/12
N2 - BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: Obesity in pregnancy has been associated with increased childhood cardiometabolic risk and reduced life expectancy. The UK UPBEAT multicentre randomised control trial was a lifestyle intervention of diet and physical activity in pregnant women with obesity. We hypothesised that the 3-year-old children of women with obesity would have heightened cardiovascular risk compared to children of normal BMI women, and that the UPBEAT intervention would mitigate this risk.SUBJECTS/METHODS: Children were recruited from one UPBEAT trial centre. Cardiovascular measures included blood pressure, echocardiographic assessment of cardiac function and dimensions, carotid intima-media thickness and heart rate variability (HRV) by electrocardiogram.RESULTS: Compared to offspring of normal BMI women (n = 51), children of women with obesity from the trial standard care arm (n = 39) had evidence of cardiac remodelling including increased interventricular septum (IVS; mean difference 0.04 cm; 95% CI: 0.018 to 0.067), posterior wall (PW; 0.03 cm; 0.006 to 0.062) and relative wall thicknesses (RWT; 0.03 cm; 0.01 to 0.05) following adjustment. Randomisation of women with obesity to the intervention arm (n = 31) prevented this cardiac remodelling (intervention effect; mean difference IVS -0.03 cm (-0.05 to -0.008); PW -0.03 cm (-0.05 to -0.01); RWT -0.02 cm (-0.04 to -0.005)). Children of women with obesity (standard care arm) compared to women of normal BMI also had elevated minimum heart rate (7 bpm; 1.41 to 13.34) evidence of early diastolic dysfunction (e prime) and increased sympathetic nerve activity index by HRV analysis.CONCLUSIONS: Maternal obesity was associated with left ventricular concentric remodelling in 3-year-old offspring. Absence of remodelling following the maternal intervention infers in utero origins of cardiac remodelling.CLINICAL TRIAL REGISTRY NAME AND REGISTRATION NUMBER: The UPBEAT trial is registered with Current Controlled Trials, ISRCTN89971375.
AB - BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: Obesity in pregnancy has been associated with increased childhood cardiometabolic risk and reduced life expectancy. The UK UPBEAT multicentre randomised control trial was a lifestyle intervention of diet and physical activity in pregnant women with obesity. We hypothesised that the 3-year-old children of women with obesity would have heightened cardiovascular risk compared to children of normal BMI women, and that the UPBEAT intervention would mitigate this risk.SUBJECTS/METHODS: Children were recruited from one UPBEAT trial centre. Cardiovascular measures included blood pressure, echocardiographic assessment of cardiac function and dimensions, carotid intima-media thickness and heart rate variability (HRV) by electrocardiogram.RESULTS: Compared to offspring of normal BMI women (n = 51), children of women with obesity from the trial standard care arm (n = 39) had evidence of cardiac remodelling including increased interventricular septum (IVS; mean difference 0.04 cm; 95% CI: 0.018 to 0.067), posterior wall (PW; 0.03 cm; 0.006 to 0.062) and relative wall thicknesses (RWT; 0.03 cm; 0.01 to 0.05) following adjustment. Randomisation of women with obesity to the intervention arm (n = 31) prevented this cardiac remodelling (intervention effect; mean difference IVS -0.03 cm (-0.05 to -0.008); PW -0.03 cm (-0.05 to -0.01); RWT -0.02 cm (-0.04 to -0.005)). Children of women with obesity (standard care arm) compared to women of normal BMI also had elevated minimum heart rate (7 bpm; 1.41 to 13.34) evidence of early diastolic dysfunction (e prime) and increased sympathetic nerve activity index by HRV analysis.CONCLUSIONS: Maternal obesity was associated with left ventricular concentric remodelling in 3-year-old offspring. Absence of remodelling following the maternal intervention infers in utero origins of cardiac remodelling.CLINICAL TRIAL REGISTRY NAME AND REGISTRATION NUMBER: The UPBEAT trial is registered with Current Controlled Trials, ISRCTN89971375.
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U2 - 10.1038/s41366-022-01210-3
DO - 10.1038/s41366-022-01210-3
M3 - Article
C2 - 36224375
SN - 0307-0565
VL - 46
SP - 2145
EP - 2155
JO - International Journal of Obesity
JF - International Journal of Obesity
IS - 12
ER -
