Influence of an exercise intervention plus an optimal Mediterranean diet adherence during pregnancy on the telomere length of the placenta. The GESTAFIT project De la Flor Alemany, Marta Acosta Manzano, Pedro Hidalgo Migueles, Jairo Varela López, Alfonso Baena García, Laura Quiles Morales, José Luis Aparicio García-Molina, Virginia Diet Mediterranean Exercise Placenta Telomere We aimed to investigate whether the effects of exercise on placental relative telomere length (RTL) after delivery are modulated by the Mediterranean diet [MD] adherence in 65 pregnant women (control n = 34, exercise n = 31). No differences were found in placental RTL between the exercise and the control groups (p = 0.557). The interaction-term between exercise and MD adherence with placental RTL was significant (p = 0.001). Specifically, women in the exercise group showed longer placental RTL after birth compared to controls (referent group), only for those women with a high MD adherence (mean difference = 0.467, p=0.010). A concurrentexercise training plus an optimal MD adherence during pregnancy might prevent the placental RTL shortening 2023-06-06T06:47:41Z 2023-06-06T06:47:41Z 2023-04-05 journal article M. Flor-Alemany et al. Influence of an exercise intervention plus an optimal Mediterranean diet adherence during pregnancy on the telomere length of the placenta. The GESTAFIT project. Placenta 136 (2023) 42–45[https://doi.org/10.1016/j.placenta.2023.04.002] https://hdl.handle.net/10481/82255 eng info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/2021 - 00036 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ open access Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional Elsevier