Dad's Preconception Exercise May Increase Obesity, Insulin Resistance Risk in Offspring

Friday, November 4, 2016 - 12:01 in Health & Medicine

Fathers who exercise regularly before their children are conceived may program their offspring's genes with an increased risk for metabolic disorders, according to new research from East Carolina University. The surprising results, to be presented at the Integrative Biology of Exercise 7 meeting, point to the identification of epigenetic markers that may change the process of diagnosis and management of chronic disease.

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