Professor Lucilla Poston CBE Professor Lucilla Poston CBE Academics Supervisors Tommy's Charity Professor of Maternal & Fetal Health Head of School, School of Life Course & Population Sciences. Research subject areas Child & Family Women
Longitudinal phenotyping of maternal antenatal depression in obese pregnant women supports multiple-hit hypothesis for fetal brain development, a secondary analysis of the UPBEAT study. Sigurdardottir, J., White, S., Flynn, A., Singh, C., Briley, A., Rutherford, M. & Poston, L., Aug 2022, In: EClinicalMedicine. 50, 101512. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eclinm.2022.101512 Altered lipid metabolism in obese women with gestational diabetes and associations with offspring adiposity Furse, S., Koulman, A., Ozanne, S. E., Poston, L., White, S. & Meek, C., 1 Jul 2022, In: Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. 107, 7, p. E2825-E2832 Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1210/clinem/dgac206 Preventing and treating childhood overweight and obesity in children up to 5 years old: a systematic review by intervention setting Flynn, A. C., Suleiman, F., Windsor-Aubrey, H., Wolfe, I., O'Keeffe, M., Poston, L. & Dalrymple, K. V., Jul 2022, In: Maternal And Child Nutrition. 18, 3, e13354. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1111/mcn.13354 Prevention of gestational diabetes in pregnant women with obesity: protocol for a pilot randomised controlled trial Quotah, O. F., Nishku, G., Hunt, J., Seed, P. T., Gill, C., Brockbank, A., Fafowora, O., Vasiloudi, I., Olusoga, O., Cheek, E., Phillips, J., Nowak, K. G., Poston, L., White, S. & Flynn, A. C., 25 Mar 2022, In: Pilot and Feasibility Studies. 8, 1, p. 70 9 p., 70. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1186/s40814-022-01021-3 Early Pregnancy Serum Concentration of Secreted Frizzled-Related Protein 4, Secreted Frizzled-Related Protein 5, and Chemerin in Obese Women Who Develop Gestational Diabetes Mellitus Groningen, U., Schuitemaker, J., Groningen, U., Poston, L. & White, S., 16 Mar 2022, In: Diabetology. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.3390/diabetology3010016 Myo-inositol nutritional supplement for prevention of gestational diabetes (EMmY): a randomised, placebo-controlled, double-blind pilot trial with nested qualitative study Amaefule, C. E., Drymoussi, Z., Gonzalez Carreras, F. J., Pardo Llorente, M. D. C., Lanz, D., Dodds, J., Sweeney, L., Pizzo, E., Thomas, A., Heighway, J., Daru, J., Sobhy, S., Poston, L., Khalil, A., Myers, J., Harden, A., Hitman, G., Khan, K. S., Zamora, J., Pérez, T. & 2 others, Huda, M. S. B. & Thangaratinam, S., 11 Mar 2022, In: BMJ Open. 12, 3, p. e050110 e052788. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-050110 Sexual dimorphism in COVID-19: potential clinical and public health implications Bechmann, N., Barthel, A., Schedl, A., Herzig, S., Varga, Z., Gebhard, C., Mayr, M., Hantel, C., Beuschlein, F., Wolfrum, C., Perakakis, N., Poston, L., Andoniadou, C. L., Siow, R., Gainetdinov, R. R., Dotan, A., Shoenfeld, Y., Mingrone, G. & Bornstein, S. R., 1 Mar 2022, In: The lancet. Diabetes & endocrinology. 10, 3, p. 221-230 10 p. Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1016/S2213-8587(21)00346-6 Health behaviours in 131,182 UK women planning pregnancy McDougall, B., Kavanagh, K., Stephenson, J., Poston, L., Flynn, A. C. & White, S. L., Dec 2021, In: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. 21, 1, 530. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12884-021-04007-w The effects of dietary and lifestyle interventions among pregnant women with overweight or obesity on early childhood outcomes: an individual participant data meta-analysis from randomised trials Louise, J., Poprzeczny, A. J., Deussen, A. R., Vinter, C., Tanvig, M., Jensen, D. M., Bogaerts, A., Devlieger, R., McAuliffe, F. M., Renault, K. M., Carlsen, E., Geiker, N., Poston, L., Briley, A., Thangaratinam, S. & Dodd, J. M., Dec 2021, In: BMC Medicine. 19, 1, 128. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-021-01995-6 Impact of maternal obesity on neonatal heart rate and cardiac size Groves, A. M., Price, A. N., Russell-Webster, T., Jhaveri, S., Yang, Y., Battersby, E. E., Shahid, S., Costa Vieira, M., Hughes, E., Miller, F., Briley, A. L., Singh, C., Seed, P. T., Chowienczyk, P. J., Stern, K. W. D., Cohen, J., Pasupathy, D., Edwards, A. D., Poston, L. & Taylor, P. D., 17 Nov 2021, (E-pub ahead of print) In: ADC Fetal & Neonatal. 7 p. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2021-322860 View all publications
18 May 2021 Preventable risks for obesity in 3-year-old children New results from the UPBEAT study show that maternal and early-life modifiable risk factors are…