Wenzhou People's Hospital/Wenzhou Maternal and Child Health Care Hospital/The Third Clinical Institute Affiliated to Wenzhou Medical Universitygrid.268099.c/The Third Affiliated Hospital of Shanghai University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China.
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
Microbiol Spectr. 2022 Oct 26;10(5):e0107622. doi: 10.1128/spectrum.01076-22. Epub 2022 Aug 22.
Age is an important factor that determines the physiological functions of the human body, but the changes in maternal physiology, biochemistry, and intestinal flora related to reproductive age and their impact on offspring are not clear. Here, we tested and analyzed the clinical physiological and biochemical indicators and/or intestinal flora, matching the data of 252 parturients and their newborns. We found that 4 clinical indicators, including the white blood cell count and the absolute value of monocytes, were significantly related to the reproductive age ( < 0.05). The composition of the intestinal flora also varied with age, and the intestinal flora of advanced-age women (≥35 years old) was different from that of middle-aged women (>25 and <35 years old). We also found that changes in maternal clinical physiological and biochemical indicators related to reproductive age could reflect changes in the abundance of bacteria, such as and , and changes in the intestinal flora spread to offspring. These results provide new evidence to explain the increased adverse pregnancy outcomes of mothers of inappropriate age, describe the increased health risks of newborns, help us examine the importance of age-appropriate birth from a broader perspective, and contribute to the discovery of mother-child bonds for a better understanding of healthy reproduction. In this study, we demonstrated that physiological indicators and the gut microbiome fluctuate drastically among parturients of different reproductive ages and that there is a significant correlation between the two changes. Mothers of different ages had different gut microbes, and the gut microbiota varied as the childbearing age became too high. Changes in the gut microbiome with maternal reproductive age affected the offspring, and the influence of reproductive age on the intestinal flora had a synergistic effect between mother and child that was revealed for the first time. The maternal childbearing age might affect the colonization of the offspring's initial flora. The results provide new evidence to explain the increased adverse pregnancy outcomes of mothers of inappropriate age, describe the increased health risks of newborns, and contribute to the discovery of mother-child bonds for a better understanding of healthy reproduction.
年龄是决定人体生理功能的重要因素,但与生殖年龄相关的母体生理学、生物化学和肠道菌群的变化及其对后代的影响尚不清楚。在这里,我们测试和分析了 252 名产妇及其新生儿的临床生理生化指标和/或肠道菌群,匹配数据。我们发现,4 项临床指标,包括白细胞计数和单核细胞绝对值,与生殖年龄显著相关(<0.05)。肠道菌群的组成也随年龄而变化,高龄产妇(≥35 岁)的肠道菌群与中年产妇(>25 岁且<35 岁)不同。我们还发现,与生殖年龄相关的母体临床生理生化指标的变化可以反映细菌丰度的变化,如和,以及肠道菌群向后代的传播变化。这些结果为解释年龄不适宜的母亲不良妊娠结局增加提供了新的证据,描述了新生儿健康风险的增加,有助于我们从更广泛的角度审视适龄生育的重要性,并有助于发现母婴纽带,以更好地理解健康生育。在这项研究中,我们表明,不同生育年龄的产妇生理指标和肠道微生物组波动很大,两者之间存在显著的相关性。不同年龄的母亲有不同的肠道微生物,随着生育年龄过高,肠道微生物也会发生变化。母体生殖年龄的变化影响后代的肠道微生物组,生殖年龄对肠道菌群的影响首次揭示了母婴之间的协同作用。产妇的生育年龄可能会影响后代初始菌群的定植。研究结果为解释年龄不适宜的母亲不良妊娠结局增加提供了新的证据,描述了新生儿健康风险的增加,并有助于发现母婴纽带,以更好地理解健康生育。