The developmental origins of health and disease and intergenerational inheritance : a scoping review of multigenerational cohort studies

Epidemiologic research has increasingly acknowledged the importance of developmental origins of health and disease (DOHaD) and suggests that prior exposures can be transferred across generations. Multigenerational cohorts are crucial to verify the intergenerational inheritance among human subjects. We carried out this scoping review aims to summarize multigenerational cohort studies' characteristics, issues, and implications and hence provide evidence to the DOHaD and intergenerational inheritance. We adopted a comprehensive search strategy to identify multigenerational cohorts, searching PubMed, EMBASE, and Web of Science databases from the inception of each dataset to June 20th, 2022, to retrieve relevant articles. After screening, 28 unique multigenerational cohort studies were identified. We classified all studies into four types: population-based cohort extended three-generation cohort, birth cohort extended three-generation cohort, three-generation cohort, and integrated birth and three-generation cohort. Most cohorts (n = 15, 53%) were categorized as birth cohort extended three-generation studies. The sample size of included cohorts varied from 41 to 167,729. The study duration ranged from two years to 31 years. Most cohorts had common exposures, including socioeconomic factors, lifestyle, and grandparents' and parents' health and risk behaviors over the life course. These studies usually investigated intergenerational inheritance of diseases as the outcomes, most frequently, obesity, child health, and cardiovascular diseases. We also found that most multigenerational studies aim to disentangle genetic, lifestyle, and environmental contributions to the DOHaD across generations. We call for more research on large multigenerational well-characterized cohorts, up to four or even more generations, and more studies from low- and middle-income countries.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:15

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Journal of developmental origins of health and disease - 15(2024) vom: 07. März, Seite e1

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Tan, Jie [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Zifang [VerfasserIn]
Yan, Lijing L [VerfasserIn]
Xu, Xiaolin [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Developmental origins of health and disease
Intergenerational inheritance
Journal Article
Life course
Multigenerational cohorts
Review

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Date Completed 10.04.2024

Date Revised 10.04.2024

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1017/S2040174424000035

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM369402227