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ey0018.11-15 | New insight into preconceptional and prenatal programming | ESPEYB18

11.15. Sex-specific programming effects of parental obesity in pre-implantation embryonic development

K Hedegger , J Philippou-Massier , S Krebs , H Blum , S Kunzelmann , K Forstemann , M Gimpfl , AA Roscher , R Ensenauer , E Wolf , M Dahlhoff

Int J Obes (Lond). 2020 May;44(5):1185–1190. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31776435/These authors investigated the effect of maternal and paternal obesity on gene expression level in the mouse blastocyst. Firstly, they show that female and male offspring were differentially sensitive to an obesogenic maternal environment in the early phase of preimplantation. Male blastocysts from o...

ey0017.14-10 | (1) | ESPEYB17

14.10. Low-dose aspirin for the prevention of preterm delivery

MK Hoffman , SS Goudar , BS Kodkany , M Metgud , M Somannavar , J Okitawutshu , A Lokangaka , A Tshefu , CL Bose , A Mwapule , M Mwenechanya , E Chomba , WA Carlo , J Chicuy , L Figueroa , A Garces , NF Krebs , S Jessani , F Zehra , S Saleem , RL Goldenberg , K Kurhe , P Das , A Patel , PL Hibberd , E Achieng , P Nyongesa , F Esamai , EA Liechty , N Goco , J Hemingway-Foday , J Moore , TL Nolen , EM McClure , M Koso-Thomas , M Miodovnik , R Silver , RJ Derman , ASPIRIN Study Group

To read the full abstract: Lancet. 2020 Jan 25;395(10220):285-293. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(19)32973-3.This randomised, placebo-controlled trial (‘ASPIRIN’) in 11,976 nulliparous women in six low or middle-income countries (India, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Guatemala, Kenya, Pakistan, and Zambia) found that low-dose aspirin (81 mg daily from early pregnancy) reduced t...