Overweight gravidas and gravidas with a robust weight gain have an accrued risk of
delivering a large-for-gestational age (LGA) baby. Here, we examined whether the …

Background Interrogation of the association between leptin, insulin resistance and fetal
growth may provide a biological link for the fetal programming of later metabolic health. Aims …

Childhood obesity rates have reached epidemic proportions. Excessive weight gain in
infancy is associated with persistence of elevated weight status and later obesity. In this …

Objectives To investigate the importance of time in pregnancy and neonatal sex on the
association between maternal metabolic parameters and neonatal sum of skinfolds …

Background: Maternal obesity and weight gain during pregnancy are risk factors for child
obesity. Associations may be attributable to causal effects of the intrauterine environment or …

Background More than 40% of women with a normal pre‐pregnancy body mass index (BMI)
exceed the 2009 I nstitute of M edicine (IOM) guidelines' recommended weight gain of 25 …

Background Extrauterine growth retardation in preterm infants is associated with an
increased risk for cardiometabolic diseases later in life. Adipocytokines are also associated …

Background: Early infant weight development influences metabolic regulation later in life.
For the prevention of obesity and metabolic diseases, it is important to understand the …

Objective This study aimed to examine associations of changes in leptin and adiponectin
concentrations from birth to age 12 years with adolescent adiposity and cardiometabolic risk …

Objective: Infants classified as small for gestational age are considered to have developed
under adverse intrauterine conditions that lead to lack of fat mass accretion. The aim of this …