High Birth Weight and Hormone-Associated Cancer in Mothers
High Birth Weight and Hormone-Associated Cancer in Mothers
The peculiar point in babies' BW association with distant/delayed pathological conditions is its relation to both baby's adult life and his or her mother's health.
In either case, those concerned in this specific area of women's health have to face, at present and in the future, not only biomedical, but ethical problems as well.
Since body weight at birth is, in a sense, recognized as a resultant and starting parameter, we should expect the prevalence of two research lines in the near future. The first will be focused, as one may foresee, on the identification of the most effective markers, mainly molecular and genetic ones, of HBW association with real cancer risk in mothers and causes of these associations. The second line will apparently be centered on finding the period of a mother's life when preventive interventions against potentially adverse events, possibly associated with high body weight of newborn babies, are most optimal and reasonable. The same is true for mothers in the opposite (LBW/CVDs) situation, while the change in trend in markers and preventive measures will obviously be needed.
Future Perspective
The peculiar point in babies' BW association with distant/delayed pathological conditions is its relation to both baby's adult life and his or her mother's health.
In either case, those concerned in this specific area of women's health have to face, at present and in the future, not only biomedical, but ethical problems as well.
Since body weight at birth is, in a sense, recognized as a resultant and starting parameter, we should expect the prevalence of two research lines in the near future. The first will be focused, as one may foresee, on the identification of the most effective markers, mainly molecular and genetic ones, of HBW association with real cancer risk in mothers and causes of these associations. The second line will apparently be centered on finding the period of a mother's life when preventive interventions against potentially adverse events, possibly associated with high body weight of newborn babies, are most optimal and reasonable. The same is true for mothers in the opposite (LBW/CVDs) situation, while the change in trend in markers and preventive measures will obviously be needed.
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