Pregnancy is a challenging metabolic and rheostatic condition. Food intake during pregnancy is essential for fetal growth and development, and inadequate diet intake and overnutrition are related to metabolic problems during pregnancy. However, an understanding of hepatic metabolic dynamics and maternal liver response toward risk diets during pregnancy remains incomplete. The prevalence of hepatic steatosis in pregnancy has tripled worldwide, with 10% of women of reproductive age in Western and Asian countries.
Nowadays risk diet consumption such as low protein/high carbohydrate, saturated lipids, and ethanol intake, has been associated with metabolic conditions that negatively impact the structure and
function of the maternal liver. This Research Topic aims to integrate the scientific evidence about the risk of diet consumption during pregnancy on the structure and function of the liver.
Researchers, clinicians, and experts in the fields of hepatology, diseases during pregnancy, public health, nutrition, and related disciplines are encouraged to submit original research articles, reviews, mini-reviews, systematic reviews, case reports, perspectives, short communications, as well as theoretical articles, opinions and methods relevant to this collection of articles that will cover topics such:
- Liver adaptations during pregnancy, current importance: liver function status in metabolic and endocrine adaptations; an example of rheostatic, physiological changes and histology in liver function; pathophysiology and maternal diet during pregnancy
- Diet during pregnancy in humans, risk diet
- Experimental diet intake during pregnancy, risk diets
- Steatosis, physiological or pathological in pregnancy, experimental models
- Clinical studies, gaps in research
Keywords:
liver, early and late pregnancy, physiological steatosis, experimental diet, physiological ballooning, biomarkers
Important Note:
All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.
Pregnancy is a challenging metabolic and rheostatic condition. Food intake during pregnancy is essential for fetal growth and development, and inadequate diet intake and overnutrition are related to metabolic problems during pregnancy. However, an understanding of hepatic metabolic dynamics and maternal liver response toward risk diets during pregnancy remains incomplete. The prevalence of hepatic steatosis in pregnancy has tripled worldwide, with 10% of women of reproductive age in Western and Asian countries.
Nowadays risk diet consumption such as low protein/high carbohydrate, saturated lipids, and ethanol intake, has been associated with metabolic conditions that negatively impact the structure and
function of the maternal liver. This Research Topic aims to integrate the scientific evidence about the risk of diet consumption during pregnancy on the structure and function of the liver.
Researchers, clinicians, and experts in the fields of hepatology, diseases during pregnancy, public health, nutrition, and related disciplines are encouraged to submit original research articles, reviews, mini-reviews, systematic reviews, case reports, perspectives, short communications, as well as theoretical articles, opinions and methods relevant to this collection of articles that will cover topics such:
- Liver adaptations during pregnancy, current importance: liver function status in metabolic and endocrine adaptations; an example of rheostatic, physiological changes and histology in liver function; pathophysiology and maternal diet during pregnancy
- Diet during pregnancy in humans, risk diet
- Experimental diet intake during pregnancy, risk diets
- Steatosis, physiological or pathological in pregnancy, experimental models
- Clinical studies, gaps in research
Keywords:
liver, early and late pregnancy, physiological steatosis, experimental diet, physiological ballooning, biomarkers
Important Note:
All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.