ReviewClinical medicine insights. Women's health2016
The Influence of Prenatal Exercise on Offspring Health: A Review.
Review in Clinical medicine insights. Women's health, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 39 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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39 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Influence of Prenatal Exercise on Apgar Score and Health-Related Physical Fitness in Childhood: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of pregnancy · 2026Pooled it
- Physical Activity during Pregnancy and Newborn Body Composition: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Pooled it
- Effects of Maternal Exercise During Pregnancy on Perinatal Growth and Childhood Obesity Outcomes: A Meta-analysis and Meta-regression.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2021Pooled it
- Physical Activity Questionnaires for Pregnancy: A Systematic Review of Measurement Properties.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2018Pooled it
- Exercise FITT-V during pregnancy: dose-dependent reduction in infant cellular lipid content and whole body fat.Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985) · 2026Trial
- The influence of prenatal exercise modes on resting maternal blood lactate.Physiological reports · 2025Trial
- Cardiac function in newborns of obese women and the effect of exercise during pregnancy. A randomized controlled trial.PloS one · 2018Trial
- A Longitudinal Study of Children's Hippocampal Development: Investigating Maternal Physical Activity, Depression, and Education.Developmental neurobiology · 2026Article
- Cross-Generational Integration of Exercise and Nutritional Encoding in Offspring Adipose Genomics.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Review
- The metabolic implications of maternal exercise: effects on pregnant women and their offspring.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Review
- What is the Influence of Prenatal Physical Activity on Body Weight, BMI, and Health Behavior in Seven-Year-Old Children?Translational sports medicine · 2026Article
- Healthcare providers' antenatal physical exercise counseling practice and its associated factors in Southwest Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study.BMC health services research · 2025Article
- Exercise Delays Brain Ageing Through Muscle-Brain Crosstalk.Cell proliferation · 2025Review
- Exercise during pregnancy (frequency, intensity, type, time, volume): birth outcomes in women at risk of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy.AJOG global reports · 2025Article
- Exercise during pregnancy modulates infant cellular and whole-body adiposity.Physiological reports · 2024Article
- Biological and behavioral pathways from prenatal depression to offspring cardiometabolic risk: Testing the developmental origins of health and disease hypothesis.Developmental psychology · 2024Review
- Exercise during pregnancy Dose: Influence on preterm birth outcomes.European journal of obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive biology · 2024Article
- Factors influencing participation and regular attendance in a program combining physical activity and nutritional advice for overweight and obese pregnant women.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2024Article
- Exercise FITT-V during pregnancy: Association with birth outcomes.Birth defects research · 2024Article
- Exercised breastmilk: a kick-start to prevent childhood obesity?Trends in endocrinology and metabolism: TEM · 2024Review
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Abstract
Research has continued to demonstrate that exercise during pregnancy is safe. Growing evidence supports that exercise during pregnancy is beneficial for mother and fetus during gestation, with benefits persisting for the child into adulthood. Regardless of income or socioeconomic status, exercise during pregnancy is associated with increased incidence of full-term delivery. Additionally, normalization of birth measures, such as birth weight, occurs when women perform regular exercise throughout gestation. Measures of growth and development further indicate that exercise during pregnancy does not harm and may stimulate healthy growth throughout childhood. Measures of cognition and intelligence demonstrate that exercise during pregnancy causes no harm and may be beneficial. Overall, the benefits of exercise during pregnancy decrease the risk of chronic disease for both mother and child.
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