Dr. Isabelle Marc is a clinician researcher at the Research Centre of the CHU de Québec, and an associate professor at the Department of Pediatrics at Laval University. She has built her research environment around her clinical practice as a pediatrician. Dr. Marc works on the effects of maternal life habits (exercise, sleep, breastfeeding) on child growth and development. Several of her studies have been realised with her students in cohorts in which she is involved. She developed an exercise laboratory for pregnant women and children at the Research Centre, which allows her to collect objective measurements of this population’s physical condition.
Dr. Marc is interested in the effects of omega-3 on the neonatal morbidity of extremely premature infants (less than 28 weeks of gestation). A supplementation with omega-3 administered to the lactating mother is an effective way to provide a daily dose of omega-3 to the preterm child through breast milk. She now wants to demonstrate the positive effects of this intervention on the infant’s health, growth, and development.
Maternal omega-3 supplementation to reduce bronchopulmonary dysplasia in very preterm infants: A randomized controlled trial (MOBYDIck Trial)
This multicenter clinical trial, funded by the CIHR, is performed in collaboration with researchers from 18 Canadian neonatal level III intensive care units. Bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) is defined as the need for ventilatory support/oxygen at 36 weeks of postmenstrual age. It is the most common and severe neonatal complication of extremely premature infants, but current approaches for the treatment and prevention are limited. After birth, breast milk becomes a source of omega-3 for preterm infants. The MOBYDIck Trial will evaluate the efficiency of maternal supplementation with omega-3 during lactation 1) to reduce the prevalence of BPD or it’s severity for the preterm infants and 2) to improve the neuro-development of the child at 2 years of age.
Sino-Canada HeLTI: A multifaceted community-family-mother-child intervention study for the prevention of childhood obesity
Obesity and its related metabolic syndrome disorders are a major public health concern. Increasing evidence points to the role of early life adverse factors in the developmental origins of the vulnerability to such metabolic disorders. Reducing the risk of overweight and obesity (OWO) from early life stages will produce substantial benefits to decrease population burdens of metabolic diseases. Dr. Marc is part of a research team in Canada and China that collaborates to identify the mechanisms that may underline the development of OWO, and the impacts of a community-family-mother-child intervention on OWO in children aged 5 years old in China.
3D cohort (Découvrir, Développer, Devenir) and the transition project of the Integrated Research Network in Perinatology of Quebec and Eastern Ontario (IRNPQEO)
The 3D cohort is following more than 2 300 families in the province of Quebec from pregnancy to childhood. The Integrated Research Network in Perinatology of Quebec and Eastern Ontario is a research team interested in the effects of various adverse prenatal risk factors (life habits, social, behavioral, environmental, and genetic) on the pregnancy, on the health of the mother and the father, and on infant development. The IRNPQEO will transfer much needed new knowledge to legislators, policy makers, clinicians, and consumers.
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- [ULaval Nouvelles] Les oméga-3, pas une panacée pour les très grands prématurés 2020-07-16
- Un antidote au diabète de grossesse? L’allaitement maternel protège les enfants exposés au diabète de grossesse contre l’obésité et le diabète de type 2 2018-03-22
- Dans la grande majorité des cas, l’exercice physique chez la femme enceinte ne pose pas de risque pour le développement du foetus 2017-07-04
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Gestational Diabetes Mellitus, Human Milk Composition, and Infant Growth
Journal ArticleBreastfeed Med, 18 (1), 2023.
Breastfeeding Practices and Associated Factors in Shanghai: A Cross-Sectional Study
Journal ArticleNutrients, 14 (20), 2022.
High doses of enteral docosahexaenoic acid omega-3 supplementation for prevention of bronchopulmonary dysplasia in very preterm infants: a protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis
Journal ArticleBMJ Open, 12 (10), 2022.
Maternal High-Dose DHA Supplementation and Neurodevelopment at 18-22 Months of Preterm Children
Journal ArticlePediatrics, 150 (1), 2022.
Effects of maternal docosahexaenoic acid supplementation on brain development and neurodevelopmental outcomes of breastfed preterm neonates: protocol for a follow-up at preschool age of a randomised clinical trial (MOBYDIckPS)
Journal ArticleBMJ Open, 12 (5), 2022.
Effect of Maternal Docosahexaenoic Acid Supplementation on Very Preterm Infant Growth: Secondary Outcome of a Randomized Clinical Trial
Journal ArticleNeonatology, 119 (3), 2022.
Use of SMOF lipid emulsion in very preterm infants does not affect the incidence of bronchopulmonary dysplasia-free survival
Journal ArticleJPEN J Parenter Enteral Nutr, 46 (8), 2022.
Determinants of Healthy Diet Among Children Exposed and Unexposed to Gestational Diabetes
Journal ArticleJ Nutr Educ Behav, 54 (5), 2022.
Breast-feeding, rapid growth in the first year of life and excess weight at the age of 2 years: the 3D Cohort Study
Journal ArticlePublic Health Nutr, 25 (12), 2022.
Large-for-Gestational-Age, Leptin, and Adiponectin in Infancy
Journal ArticleJ Clin Endocrinol Metab, 107 (2), 2022.
Active projects
- Dysplasie bronchopulmonaire et profil neurodéveloppemental à 2 ans, from 2022-10-12 to 2023-03-31
- HeLTI cooperative research project: A Multifaceted Maternal-Child Health Intervention Cohort Study for the prevention of childhood obesity, from 2022-02-01 to 2027-01-31
- Maternal Omega-3 supplementation to reduce Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia in very Preterm Infants : A Randomized controlled trial (MOBYDIck trial)., from 2014-07-01 to 2024-03-31
- Maternal sleep-disordered breathing during pregnancy and long-term health outcomes in children: the 3D pregnancy and birth cohort, from 2019-04-01 to 2024-09-30
- Pediatric Outcomes imProvement through COordination of Research Networks (POPCORN), from 2022-03-01 to 2024-02-29
Recently finished projects
- Challenges to the vulnerable child in the transitions from preschool in a pregnacy cohort, from 2016-07-01 to 2021-06-30
- Isoprostanes and phospholipases A2: Roles in the pathophysiology of preeclampsia, from 2017-04-01 to 2022-03-31
- Perinatal research unit for a sustainable health of mother and child, from 2018-03-01 to 2021-12-31
- Sino-Canada Hel Tl: A Multifaceted. Community-Family-Mother-Child Intervention Study for the Prevention ofthildhood Obesity, from 2016-07-01 to 2021-06-30