Background Neonatal body composition likely mediates fetal influences on life long chronic
disease risk. A better understanding of how maternal lifestyle is related to newborn body …

Background: Lower birthweight is associated with increased susceptibility to
cardiometabolic diseases in adulthood, but the underlying molecular pathways are …

Context An obesogenic perinatal environment contributes to adverse offspring metabolic
health. Previous studies have been limited by lack of direct adiposity measurements and …

Background Offspring of women with diabetes mellitus (DM) during pregnancy have a risk of
developing metabolic disease in adulthood greater than that conferred by genetics alone …

Background Pregnancy triggers well-known alterations in maternal glucose and lipid
balance but its overall effects on systemic metabolism remain incompletely understood …

OBJECTIVE: To investigate whether women who deliver preterm have excess risk for
metabolic dysregulation independent of prepregnancy factors. METHODS: We conducted a …

The association of preterm or low birth weight (LBW) with the risk of metabolic syndrome is
still unclear. This study aimed to assess the association between preterm or LBW and …

Abstract Background Metabolic Syndrome (MetS) can be considered as a consequence of a
complex interplay between genetic and environmental factors and can be influenced by …

Background The influence of multiple maternal and pregnancy characteristics on offspring
cardiometabolic traits at birth is not well understood and was evaluated in this study …

Methods: We performed a nested case–control study within Project Viva, a longitudinal
cohort of mothers and children. We selected cases (n= 26) based on top quartile of change …