ArticlePediatric research2019
Maternal obesity and gestational diabetes mellitus affect body composition through infancy: the PONCH study.
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23 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- The effect of diet quality on the risk of developing gestational diabetes mellitus: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in public health · 2022Pooled it
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- Advances in Research on Childhood-Obesity Associated With Gestational Diabetes Mellitus.Journal of diabetes · 2026Review
- Prenatal exposure to hyperglycemia and child growth trajectories in the first 3 years of life: a prospective birth cohort.BMC medicine · 2025Article
- Association of lifelines diet score (LLDS) and diversity diet score (DDS) with the odds of gestational diabetes mellitus: a case-control study.Journal of diabetes and metabolic disorders · 2025Article
- The effect of maternal blood glucose control on infant body composition at birth.Early human development · 2025Article
- Establishment of a risk prediction model for large-for-gestational-age infants among Chinese women with gestational diabetes mellitus.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Genetic and epigenetic alterations associated with gestational diabetes mellitus and adverse neonatal outcomes.World journal of clinical pediatrics · 2025Review
- Body Composition Changes and Associations in Infants and Mothers During the First Year: Insights from a Pilot Study of the Baby-bod Project.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
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- Impact of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus on Fetal Growth and Nutritional Status in Newborns.Nutrients · 2024Review
- Association of Umbilical Cord Perilipin 2 Levels with Neonatal Anthropometric Measurements in Infants of Diabetic Mothers.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Substance P Concentration in Gestational Diabetes and Excessive Gestational Weight Gain and Its Impact on Neonatal Anthropometry.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Article
- Maternal Weight Gain during Pregnancy and the Developing Autonomic Nervous System-Possible Impact of GDM.Nutrients · 2022Article
- Impact of maternal HbADiabetologia · 2021Article
- Reliability of routine anthropometric measurements to estimate body composition in term infants.Pediatric research · 2021Article
- Infant body composition relationship to maternal adipokines and fat mass: the PONCH study.Pediatric research · 2021Article
- Gestational Diabetes Mellitus and Infant Adiposity at Birth: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Therapeutic Interventions.Journal of clinical medicine · 2021Review
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Abstract
backgroundTo determine how maternal obesity or gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) affect infant body size and body composition during the first year of life.
methodsEighty three normal-weight (NW) women, 26 obese (OB) women, and 26 women with GDM were recruited during pregnancy. Infant body composition was determined by air-displacement plethysmography at 1 and 12 weeks, and anthropometric measurements made until 1 year of age.
resultsGirl infants born to OB women and women with GDM had a higher body-fat percentage (BF%) at 1 and 12 weeks of age than girls born to NW women. Girls had higher BF% than boys in OB and GDM groups only. Maternal HbA1c and fasting plasma glucose correlated with girl infant BF% at 1 week of age. Maternal weight at start of pregnancy correlated with birthweight in NW and OB groups, but not the GDM group. OB group infants showed greater BMI increases from 1 week to 1 year than both NW and GDM group infants.
conclusionResults show that both maternal glycaemia and obesity are determinants of increased early life adiposity, especially in girls, with glycaemic levels being more influential than maternal weight for infants born to women with GDM.
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