Obesity is now widespread around the world. Obesity‐associated chronic low‐grade
inflammation is responsible for the decrease of insulin sensitivity, which makes obesity a …

Fetal metabolic programming caused by the adverse intrauterine environment can induce
metabolic syndrome in adult offspring. Adverse intrauterine environment introduces fetal …

Obesity and gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) are becoming more common among
pregnant women worldwide and are individually associated with a number of placenta …

Background Fetal development is a crucial window of susceptibility in which exposure-
related alterations can be induced on the molecular level, leading to potential changes in …

Emerging research has highlighted the importance of leptin in fetal growth and development
independent of its essential role in the maintenance of hunger and satiety through the …

Abnormal maternal lipid profiles, a hallmark of increased maternal adiposity, are associated
with pregnancy complications such as preeclampsia and gestational diabetes, and offspring …

This article is part of a Special Issue “SBN 2014”. Obesity in women of child-bearing age is a
growing problem in developed and developing countries. Evidence from human studies …

The prevalence of obesity, metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes has dramatically
increased worldwide over the last few decades. Although genetic predisposition and lifestyle …

Background Obesity and type-2 diabetes are on the rise and in utero exposure to
environmental contaminants is a suspected contributing factor. Our objective was to …

The link between maternal obesity and inflammatory mediators is still unclear. Our aim was
to summarize the main findings of recently published studies on this topic. We performed a …