The role of prenatal exposures on body fat patterns at 7 years: intrauterine programming or birthweight effects?

It remains unknown whether the effects of prenatal exposures on child´s adiposity reflect entirely intrauterine programming. We aimed to assess the effects of maternal gestational weight gain, diabetes and smoking on child´s body fat patterns, disentangling the direct (through intrauterine programming) and indirect (through birthweight) effects.
Source: Nutrition, Metabolism, and Cardiovascular Diseases : NMCD - Category: Nutrition Authors: Source Type: research