Does exposure long before conception influence future respiratory health?

Symposium
Chairs: S. Belo Ravara (Covilhã, Portugal), J. Vestbo (Manchester (Greater Manchester), United Kingdom)
Aims: To describe the effects of exposures, lifestyles and behaviours before conception and in previous generations on asthma and respiratory health, including through multigenerational studies in humans and animals, epigenetic mechanistic research, and understanding susceptible stages during germ cell development.

Before the beginning of life: how exposures of fathers and mothers before conception influence respiratory health in their children C. Svanes (Bergen, Norway)
Inter- and trans-generational effects in respiratory disease: epigenetic mechanisms J. Holloway (Southampton (Hampshire), United Kingdom)
Multigenerational animal models investigating the effects of exposures across generations. S. Krauss-Etschmann (Borstel, Germany)
Causal statistical models for analysis of multi-generation data: An analysis of father’s overweight and offspring height and lung function S. Accordini (Verona (VR), Italy)