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ArticleSAGE open medicine2016

Associations between maternal anthropometric characteristics and infant birth weight in Iranian population.

Sormeh Nourbakhsh, Sepideh Ashrafzadeh, Ali Hafizi, Ali Naseh

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Article in SAGE open medicine, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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4 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Sormeh NourbakhshResearch Institute for Endocrine Science, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Sepideh AshrafzadehDivision of General Pediatrics, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Ali HafiziTaleghani Educational Hospital, Department of Pediatrics, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Ali NasehTaleghani Educational Hospital, Department of Pediatrics, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Boston Children's Hospital · USResearch Institute for Endocrine Sciences · IRShahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences · IRTaleghani General Hospital · IR

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Abstract

objectiveTo examine the (1) normal ranges of anthropometric and insulin resistance/sensitivity indices (homeostatic model assessment for insulin resistance, homeostatic model assessment for insulin sensitivity, and quantitative insulin sensitivity check index) for Iranian pregnant women and their newborns and (2) associations between maternal anthropometric and metabolic values and infants' birth weights among Iranian women.

methodsAnthropometric and metabolic values of 163 singleton non-diabetic pregnant women in Tehran, Iran (2014) were collected before and during pregnancy and at delivery. Linear regression, multivariable regression, and Student t tests were used to evaluate correlations between birth weight and maternal variables.

resultsLinear regression modeling suggested that maternal serum glucose (p = 0.2777) and age (p = 0.6752) were not associated with birth weight. Meanwhile, maternal weight and body mass index before pregnancy (p = 0.0006 and 0.0204, respectively), weight at delivery (p = 0.0036), maternal height (p = 0.0118), and gestational age (p = 0.0016) were positively associated with birth weight, while serum insulin (p = 0.0300) and homeostatic model assessment for insulin resistance (p = 0.0334) were negatively associated with infant's birth weight. Using multivariate modeling, we identified severalconfounders: parity (multipara mothers delivered heavier babies compared to first-time mothers) explained as much as 24% of variation in birth weight (p = 0.005), maternal height explained 20.7% (p = 0.014), gestational age accounted for 19.7% (p = 0.027), and maternal body mass index explained 19.1% (p = 0.023) of the variation in the infant's birth weight. Maternal serum insulin and infant's sex were not observed to be associated with birth weight (p = 0.342 and 0.669, respectively) in the overall model.

conclusionOverweight/obese women may experience higher incidence of delivering larger babies. Multivariable regression analyses showed that maternal body mass index and height, parity, and gestational age are associated with newborn's birth weight.

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birth weightbody mass indexhomeostatic model assessmentlow/high birth weightNeonatespregnancy

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