Maternal fuels and metabolic measures during pregnancy and neonatal body composition: the healthy start study.

ABSTRACT:

Context

The impact of specific maternal fuels and metabolic measures during early and late gestation on neonatal body composition is not well defined.

Objective

To determine how circulating maternal glucose, lipids, and insulin resistance in the first and second halves of pregnancy influence neonatal body composition.

Design

A prospective pre-birth cohort enrolling pregnant women, the Healthy Start Study, was conducted, in which fasting maternal serum samples were collected twice during pregnancy to measure glucose, insulin, hemoglobin A1c, triglyceride, total cholesterol, high-density lipoprotein, and free fatty acids. Neonatal body composition was measured with air displacement plethysmography.

Setting

An observational epidemiology study of pregnant women att

SUBMITTER: Crume TL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4399301 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature