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Preventing lifetime obesity by early risk-factor identification, prognosis and intervention

Project description

Treating excessive weight gain with tailored prevention and lifestyle interventions

Obesity, a global health crisis, has steadily surged over the years, posing a grave threat to well-being and life expectancy. Despite research strides, treatment efficacy remains limited, underscoring the need for prevention. The EU-funded eprObes project is set to revolutionise the battle against obesity by targeting its roots during early developmental stages. Specifically, the project takes a holistic view, spanning clinical, cognitive, mental health, and lifestyle studies. It delves into the enigmatic early triggers of adult obesity, occurring during prenatal, infantile, and adolescent stages. The project recognises the gender-dependent nature of obesity susceptibility, a facet often overlooked. Through multidisciplinary research, eprObes pinpoints pathogenic mechanisms and metabolic markers, employing bioinformatics and artificial intelligence for data analysis.

Objective

Obesity is one of the main population health threats worldwide, with a sustained increase in prevalence over the last decades and a constellation of co-morbidities that seriously hamper individual wellbeing and life-expectancy. Despite major research efforts, obesity treatments have proven of limited efficacy. Thus, effective prevention strategies are essential to avoid the full spectrum of metabolic complications of overweight during the life-course.
Adult obesity is rooted on early maturational events, including pathophysiological and psychological determinants occurring during the gestational, infantile and/or adolescent periods, which globally remain ill defined. Identification of such early pathogenic mechanisms and markers of metabolic disease is key for active prevention and personalized management of body weight disorders later in life. Of note, pathogenic mechanisms and susceptibility to obesity are seemingly gender-dependent, but this aspect remains underexplored and may compromise effectiveness of preventive measures and treatments tackling obesity and its complications.
eprObes (for early Prevention of Obesity) is a multidisciplinary, patient-centered project, involving clinical studies targeting different maturational windows, coupled with cognitive, mental health, life-style and behavioral studies, as well as mechanistic analyses in suitable preclinical models, whose major aim is to define effective strategies for active prevention of obesity during the life-course, with particular focus on early developmental events, from prenatal (including peri-conceptional) to pubertal periods, and determinants of feeding behaviors. Multi-omics studies and integral analysis of eprObes data, assisted by bioinformatic technologies and artificial intelligence, will permit definition of tailored preventive measures and life-style interventions, at key maturational periods, to avoid excessive body weight gain and lifetime metabolic complications in both sexes.

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Coordinator

CONSORCIO CENTRO DE INVESTIGACION BIOMEDICA EN RED M.P.
Net EU contribution

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€ 1 659 235,75
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CALLE MONFORTE DE LEMOS 5
28029 MADRID
Spain

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Comunidad de Madrid Comunidad de Madrid Madrid
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€ 2 718 249,50

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