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Trial reportMaternal & child nutrition2017

Maternal plasma cholesterol and duration of pregnancy: A prospective cohort study in Ghana.

Brietta M Oaks, Christine P Stewart, Kevin D Laugero, Seth Adu-Afarwuah, Anna Lartey, Stephen A Vosti, Per Ashorn, Kathryn G Dewey

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Trial report in Maternal & child nutrition, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 23% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. HDL Function across the Lifespan: From Childhood, to Pregnancy, to Old Age.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Brietta M OaksDepartment of Nutrition, University of California, Davis, California, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6056-0585
Christine P StewartDepartment of Nutrition, University of California, Davis, California, USA.
Kevin D LaugeroDepartment of Nutrition, University of California, Davis, California, USA.
Seth Adu-AfarwuahDepartment of Nutrition and Food Science, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana.
Anna LarteyDepartment of Nutrition and Food Science, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana.
Stephen A VostiDepartment of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Davis, California, USA.
Per AshornDepartment for Paediatrics and Centre for Child Health Research, University of Tampere School of Medicine and Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland.
Kathryn G DeweyDepartment of Nutrition, University of California, Davis, California, USA.
University of California, Davis · USUniversity of Ghana · GHTampere University Hospital · FI

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Low plasma cholesterol may be associated with preterm birth; however, results are mixed and limited primarily to high-income countries. Our objective was to determine whether maternal plasma lipid concentrations are associated with pregnancy duration. We performed a nested cohort (n = 320) study of pregnant Ghanaian women enrolled in a randomized controlled trial. Total cholesterol, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C), low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, and triglyceride concentrations were analyzed in plasma at ≤20and 36 weeks gestation as continuous variables and also categorized into low, referent, or high (<10th, 10th-90th, >90th percentile). At ≤20 weeks, plasma lipid concentrations were not associated with pregnancy duration. At 36 weeks, total cholesterol and triglyceride concentrations were not associated with pregnancy duration. Higher HDL-C at 36 weeks was associated with a longer pregnancy duration (adjusted β-coefficient ± standard error: 0.05 ± 0.02 days mg

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PMID28025862
PMCPMC6866059
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