Co-published with Italy’s Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, this report shows that success comes from addressing the systems and environments shaping children’s health, not just individual behaviours.

🔗 Read the report: bit.ly/46qy7tN

This analysis comes ahead of the NHS 10-Year Health Plan to address health inequalities and echoes the Council for Science and Technology’s letter - co-chaired by our President Prof Andrew Morris CBE FRSE PMedSci - for bold leadership and cross-govt action to prioritise prevention.

Key evidence includes:

👶 The first 1,000 days of life shape lifelong health
📉 Obesity rates are 2x higher in deprived areas
🏘️ Public health interventions beat individual fixes

Our Vice President (Clinical), Prof @rosalindsmyth.bsky.social CBE FMedSci, shares the importance of early action 👇

The report calls for urgent action to:

🤰 Prioritise support during pregnancy
🍴 Ensure robust regulation of the food industry
🤝 Coordinate across govt departments i.e. food, education, urban planning and transport

This highlights the need for long-term cardiovascular follow up in offspring (of both sexes!) from human metformin-treated pregnancies to inform decisions about its use in pregnancy - a tricky question that requires balancing mum and baby's health 👩‍🍼

Offspring of obese mice had hypertension and diastolic dysfunction by 12mo. Maternal #metformin worsened the phenotype and introduced sex-dependent CV alterations in both male (cardiac stiffening, vascular dysfunction) & female (obesity-induced hypertension) offspring.