ArticleEvolution, medicine, and public health2017
Maternal pelvic dimensions and neonatal size: Implications for growth plasticity in early life as adaptation.
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- Multifactorial drivers of spatial variation in human body form across modern China.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Association of discordant neonatal birth weight and maternal height with risk of preeclampsia: a multi-center retrospective cohort study in China.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2025Article
- Reconsidering the developmental origins of adult disease paradigm: The 'metabolic coordination of childbirth' hypothesis.Evolution, medicine, and public health · 2024Review
- The developmental impacts of natural selection on human pelvic morphology.Science advances · 2022Article
- Birth length is the strongest predictor of linear growth status and stunting in the first 2 years of life after a preconception maternal nutrition intervention: the children of the Women First trial.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2022Article
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- Evolution of Lactase Persistence: Turbo-Charging Adaptation in Growth Under the Selective Pressure of Maternal Mortality?Frontiers in physiology · 2021Article
- The Maternal Nutritional Buffering Model: an evolutionary framework for pregnancy nutritional intervention.Evolution, medicine, and public health · 2020Review
- Advanced glycation end products and adipocytokines and oxidative stress in placental tissues of pregnant women with gestational diabetes mellitus.Experimental and therapeutic medicine · 2019Article
- The Dual Burden of Malnutrition Increases the Risk of Cesarean Delivery: Evidence From India.Frontiers in public health · 2018Article
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Abstract
Patterns of fetal growth predict non-communicable disease risk in adult life, but fetal growth variability appears to have a relatively weak association with maternal nutritional dynamics during pregnancy. This challenges the interpretation of fetal growth variability as 'adaptation'. We hypothesized that associations of maternal size and nutritional status with neonatal size are mediated by the dimensions of the maternal pelvis. We analysed data on maternal height, body mass index (BMI) and pelvic dimensions (conjugate, inter-spinous and inter-cristal diameters) and neonatal gestational age, weight, length, thorax girth and head girth (
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