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Jennifer Baker

Lifecourse and intergenerational pathways to child and adult cardiometabolic health
Grant amount: DKK 9,999,878
Jennifer Baker says: “Too many people in Denmark and worldwide suffer from type 2 diabetes and heart disease. Unfortunately, more than 18% of children and 51% of Danish adults have overweight, which is a key risk factor for these diseases. To effectively fight and prevent these diseases, we need to investigate how people grow from early to old age along with other factors they are exposed to during life. By linking together Danish data resources on 367,300 children with national health registers, we will investigate how growth from fetal life to adolescence leads to cardiometabolic disease throughout life. We will investigate how genes, a child’s body size and growth in early life as well as their family history of disease, social conditions and government policies affect the risk of developing these diseases. The goal is to identify early risk markers as to increase the possibility of prevention and early identification of risk and to identify policy changes that can ultimately protect and improve cardiometabolic health.”
Jennifer Baker
Jennifer Baker
Senior Researcher, Center for Clinical Research and Prevention, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospitals