TY - JOUR T1 - Maternal weight status before pregnancy is strongly associated with offspring weight status in childhood JF - Evidence Based Nursing JO - Evid Based Nurs SP - 91 LP - 91 DO - 10.1136/ebnurs-2019-103178 VL - 23 IS - 3 AU - Rachel Cooper AU - Snehal M Pinto Pereira Y1 - 2020/07/01 UR - http://ebn.bmj.com/content/23/3/91.abstract N2 - Commentary on: Heslehurst N, Vieira R, Akhter Z, et al. The association between maternal body mass index and child obesity: a systematic review and meta-analysis. PLoS Medicine 2019;16:e1002817. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1002817.When designing strategies to prevent childhood obesity, the weight status of women prepregnancy is a potential target for intervention.Research is needed to identify interventions that are effective in reducing the prevalence of maternal prepregnancy obesity.Obesity is associated with adverse health outcomes across life. The rise in its global prevalence is therefore one of the most important public health challenges of our time.1 Obesity tracks across life and so interventions to reduce its prevalence and minimise its lifelong consequences need to commence early in life.2 Parental and offspring weight status are strongly associated,3 and it is recognised that intervening on these intergenerational associations may be … ER -