ArticleNutrition & diabetes2013
The concurrent validity between leptin, BMI and skin folds during pregnancy and the year after.
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- Effects of an antenatal dietary intervention on maternal anthropometric measures in pregnant women with obesity.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2015Trial
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- Impact of pregravid obesity on maternal and fetal immunity: Fertile grounds for reprogramming.Journal of leukocyte biology · 2019Review
- Serum Adipsin Levels throughout Normal Pregnancy and Preeclampsia.Scientific reports · 2016Article
- Maternal obesity (Class I-III), gestational weight gain and maternal leptin levels during and after pregnancy: a prospective cohort study.BMC obesity · 2016Article
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Abstract
backgroundFrom a public health perspective it is important to know which of the currently used methods to estimate changes in maternal body fat during pregnancy and the year thereafter is the most adequate.
objectivesTo evaluate the concurrent validity between leptin and surrogates of fat measures: body mass index (BMI) and the sum of four skin folds.
designData from the New Life(style) intervention study were analysed as a cohort study.
settingMidwife practices in The Netherlands. POPULATION: Healthy pregnant nulliparous women.
methodsAnthropometric measurements were done and blood was collected at 15, 25 and 35 weeks of pregnancy and at 6, 26 and 52 weeks after delivery. Data were used if at least 4 out of the 6 measurements were available, leaving 87 women in the analyses. Spearman's correlation coefficients between leptin and BMI and between leptin and the sum of skin folds were calculated for each time point and for the changes between the time points.
resultsCorrelations between leptin and BMI varied from 0.69 to 0.81. Correlations between leptin and the sum of skin folds were comparable, varying between 0.65 and 0.81.Correlations between changes in leptin and changes in BMI and the sum of skin folds, respectively, were much lower compared with cross-sectional correlations.
conclusionBecause of the high correlation among the three methods and because of the overlapping intervals, all methods seem to be equally adequate to estimate changes in maternal body fat during pregnancy and the year thereafter.
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