Article
High-protein nutrition during pregnancy and lactation programs blood pressure, food efficiency, and body weight of the offspring in a sex-dependent manner.
American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology - 1 Oct 2006
Thone-Reineke C, Kalk P, Dorn M, Klaus S, Simon K, Pfab T, Godes M, Persson P, Unger T, Hocher B
Abstract excerpt
Maternal low-protein diet during pregnancy is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease of the offspring in later life. The impact of high-protein diet during pregnancy on the cardiovascular phenotype of the offspring, however, is still unknown. We examined the influence of a high-protein diet during pregnancy and lactation on the renal, hemodynamic, and metabolic phenotype of the F1 generation. Female Wistar rats...
Topics
- Adaptation, Physiological
- Animals
- Animals, Suckling
- Birth Weight
- Blood Pressure
- Body Weight
- Dietary Proteins
- Eating
- Electrolytes
- Energy Metabolism