Maternal Birth Weight and BMI Mediate the Transgenerational Effect of Grandmaternal BMI on Grandchild's Birth Weight.

CONCLUSIONS: Larger grandmaternal BMI indirectly increased grandchild's BW via maternal BW and BMI. Grandmaternal smoking during pregnancy indirectly reduced grandchild's BW via maternal smoking during pregnancy and BW. PMID: 32012478 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32012478?dopt=Abstract

Source: Obesity - February 2, 2020 Category: Eating Disorders & Weight Management Authors: Shen Y, Zhang H, Jiang Y, Mzayek F, Arshad H, Karmaus W Tags: Obesity (Silver Spring) Source Type: research