Trial reportReproductive health2017
Maternal fat free mass during pregnancy is associated with birth weight.
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- Glucose metabolism in gestational diabetes and their relationship with fat mass / muscle mass index.European journal of obstetrics & gynecology and reproductive biology: X · 2024Article
- Influence of Pre-Pregnancy Obesity on Carbohydrate and Lipid Metabolism with Selected Adipokines in the Maternal and Fetal Compartment.Nutrients · 2023Article
- CT analysis of thoracolumbar body composition for estimating whole-body composition.Insights into imaging · 2023Article
- Maternal Nutrition, Body Composition and Gestational Weight Gain on Low Birth Weight and Small for Gestational Age-A Cohort Study in an Indian Urban Slum.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- The Changing Climate and Pregnancy Health.Current environmental health reports · 2022Review
- Correlation of body composition in early pregnancy on gestational diabetes mellitus under different body weights before pregnancy.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2022Article
- The Possibility of Using Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis in Pregnant and Postpartum Women.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- Relationship between maternal body composition during pregnancy and infant's birth weight in Nairobi informal settlements, Kenya.BMJ nutrition, prevention & health · 2020Article
- Why Pregnancy Weight Gain Guidelines Need to Differ for Multiple Versus Single Pregnancies.Current nutrition reports · 2020Review
- Associations between hydration state and pregnancy complications, maternal-infant outcomes: protocol of a prospective observational cohort study.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2020Article
- Prepregnancy Fat Free Mass and Associations to Glucose Metabolism Before and During Pregnancy.The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism · 2019Observational
- Vaspin in Serum and Urine of Post-Partum Women with Excessive Gestational Weight Gain.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2019Article
- Fatty Acid-Binding Protein 4-An "Inauspicious" Adipokine-In Serum and Urine of Post-Partum Women with Excessive Gestational Weight Gain and Gestational Diabetes Mellitus.Journal of clinical medicine · 2018Article
- Ghrelin in Serum and Urine of Post-Partum Women with Gestational Diabetes Mellitus.International journal of molecular sciences · 2018Article
- Life history trade-offs and the partitioning of maternal investment: Implications for health of mothers and offspring.Evolution, medicine, and public health · 2018Review
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Abstract
backgroundThe relationship between maternal body compositions and birth weight was not definite. Fat Mass (FM) and Fat Free Mass (FFM) can accurately reflect the maternal body fat compositions and have been considered as better predictors of birth weight. Despite its potential role, no studies have been described the maternal compositions during pregnancy in East Asian women previously. We investigated the correlation between birth weight and Maternal body composition including fat mass (FM) and fat free mass (FFM). To determine whether birth weight is associated with maternal body fat FM and FFM during pregnancy and, if so, which trimester and parameter is more critical in determining birth weight.
methodsA longitudinal prospective observational study performed, 348, 481 and 321 non-diabetics Han Chinese women with a singleton live birth attending a routine visit in their first, second and third trimesters were recruited. Maternal body composition was measured using segmental multi-frequency bioelectrical impedance analysis. Data of the pre-pregnancy body mass index (BMI), maternal BMI, the gestational weight gain (GWG), and placental and birth weight were collected.
resultsA significant correlation exists between maternal FFM in the process of pregnancy, placental weight, GWG at delivery, and birth weight (P < 0.05). On stepwise multiple linear regression analysis, material's FFM was the most important factor associated with the birth weight. After adjustment, there was significantly associated with 2.47-fold increase in risk for birth weight more than 4 kg when FFM ≥ 40.76 kg (Upper quartile of participants). The increased maternal age became a protective factor (OR = 0.69) while the increased pre-pregnancy BMI (OR = 1.50) remained predictors to birth weight more than 4 kg.
conclusionsThe change of maternal FFM during pregnancy is independently affected the birth weight.
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