Early-Life Risk Factors for Adult Cardiometabolic Disease

Dear Colleagues,

We are organizing a Special Issue on the impact of early life risk factors for adult cardio-metabolic disease in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (Impact Factor 2.101 in 2016). The venue is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes articles and communications in the interdisciplinary area of environmental health sciences and public health. For detailed information on the journal, we refer you to https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph.

Cardio-metabolic disease remains the major contributor to health care costs worldwide. Although the major health complications of cardio-metabolic disease do not typically occur before middle age, the disease process begins early in life and progresses through adolescence and young adulthood. Long-term cohort studies spanning childhood to adulthood have shown that multiple child and adolescent risk factors, such as adiposity, blood pressure, smoking, blood lipid levels, and parental and socioeconomic factors predict cardio-metabolic disease in adulthood. This research has contributed to a critical mass of data supporting the early-life origins of adult cardio-metabolic disease that has helped bring an earlier (in life) focus to prevention of cardio-metabolic disease.

For this Special Issue, we invite submissions of high-quality research studies open to any subject area related to the impacts of early life (infant, child, adolescent) factors for adult cardio-metabolic disease risk. The listed keywords (below) can be used as a guide, but study designs must incorporate a temporal sequence (e.g., prospective or retrospective cohort studies), as cross-sectional studies will not be considered.

Dr. Costan G. Magnussen
Dr. Russell Thomson
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2500 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

• Pediatrics
• Children
• Adolescents
• Risk factors
• Cardiovascular disease
• Subclinical cardiovascular disease
• Ideal cardiovascular health
• Adulthood
• Obesity
• Type 2 diabetes mellitus
• Hypertension
• Lipids and lipoproteins
• Smoking
• Physical fitness
• Physical activity
• Socioeconomic status
• Inflammation
• Infection
• Trajectories
• Life course
• Cohort
• Epidemiology
• Prevention