This comprehensive work explores maternal and child health through a life-course perspective, emphasizing the interconnectedness of health stages rather than viewing them in isolation. It discusses early programming, racial and ethnic disparities in birth outcomes, prenatal stress, and the impact of maternal diabetes on childhood obesity. By integrating insights from epidemiology, public health, and maternal care, the study advocates for innovative strategies that address the underlying conditions affecting health across generations, ultimately aiming to improve outcomes for children and families.
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Reinventing Maternal & Child Health:A Life-Course Perspective Michael C. Lu, MD, MPH Associate Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Public Health UCLA Schools of Medicine and Public Health UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities National Center for Infancy & Early Childhood Health Policy MCHB-AIM Child & Adolescent Policy Support Center Alameda County Building Blocks for Healthy Babies, Healthy Families, & Healthy Communities September 10, 2009
Life-Course Perspective • A way of looking at life not as disconnected stages, but as an integrated continuum
Life Course Perspective Lu MC, Halfon N. Racial and ethnic disparities in birth outcomes: a life-course perspective.Matern Child Health J. 2003;7:13-30.
Barker HypothesisBirth Weight and Coronary Heart Disease Age Adjusted Relative Risk Rich-Edwards JW, Stampfer MJ, Manson JE, Rosner B, Hankinson SE, Colditz GA et al. Birth weight and risk of cardiovascular disease in a cohort of women followed up since 1976. Br Med Jr 1997;315:396-400.
Barker HypothesisBirth Weight and Hypertension Law CM, de Swiet M, Osmond C, Fayers PM, Barker DJP, Cruddas AM, et al. Initiation of hypertension in utero and its amplification throughout life. Br Med J 1993;306:24-27.
Barker HypothesisBirth Weight and Insulin Resistance Syndrome Odds ratio adjusted for BMI Barker DJP, Hales CN, Fall CHD, Osmond C, Phipps K, Clark PMS. Type 2 (non-insulin-dependent) diabetes mellitus, hypertension and hyperlipidaemia (Syndrome X): Relation to reduced fetal growth. Diabetologia 1993;36:62-67.
Prenatal Stress & Programming of the Brain • Prenatal stress (animal model) • Hippocampus • Site of learning & memory formation • Stress down-regulates glucocorticoid receptors • Loss of negative feedback; overactive HPA axis • Amygdala • Site of anxiety and fear • Stress up-regulates glucocorticoid receptors • Accentuated positive feedback; overactive HPA axis Welberg LAM, Seckl JR. Prenatal stress, glucocorticoids and the programming of the brain. J Neuroendocrinol 2001;13:113-28.
Epigenetics Gibbs WW. The Unseen Genome: Beyond DNA. Scientific American 2003
EpigeneticsSame Genome, Different Epigenome R.A. Waterland, R.A. Jirtle, "Transposable elements: targets for early nutritional effects on epigenetic gene regulation," Mol Cell Biol, 23:5293-300, 2003. Reprinted in the New Scientist 2004
Epidemic of Childhood Overweight & Obesity Children 6-18 Overweight Source: National Center for Health Statistics, National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey Note: Estimate not available for 1976-1980 for Hispanic; overweight defined as BMI at or above the 95th percentile ofr the CDC BMI-for-age growth charts
Rethinking Preterm Birth Vulnerability to preterm delivery may be traced to not only exposure to stress & infection during pregnancy, but host response to stress & infection (e.g. stress reactivity & inflammatory dysregulation) patterned over the life course (early programming & cumulative allostatic load)
Preterm Birth &Maternal Ischemic Heart Disease Smith et al Lancet 2001;357:2002-06 Kaplan-Meier plots of cumulative probability of survival without admission or death from ischemic heart disease after first pregnancy in relation to preterm birth
How Can This Be? First, the pathways to better health do not generally depend on better health care, and second, even in those instances in which health care is important, too many Americans do not receive it, receive it too late, or receive poor-quality care. Schroeder SA. NEJM 2007;357:1221-8
How Can We Do Better? Transform maternal and child healthcare Assure the conditions in which all mothers and children can be healthy