ReviewFrontiers in endocrinology2021
Newer Insights Into Fetal Growth and Body Composition.
Review in Frontiers in endocrinology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.
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- Fetal Body Composition and Organ Growth in Pregnancies Complicated by First-Trimester Vaginal Bleeding Status: NICHD Fetal 3D Study.American journal of perinatology · 2026Trial
- Development of Novel Prenatal Prediction Models for Birth-Weight Estimation in Low-Risk Third-Trimester Pregnancies.Biomedicines · 2026Article
- Maternal oxidative stress biomarkers across pregnancy in relation to fetal growth: evidence from the TIDES cohort.American journal of epidemiology · 2026Article
- A polygenic growth score and risk for large for gestational age birth weight.Journal of the Endocrine Society · 2026Article
- Fetal Polygenic Growth Score and Risk for Large for Gestational Age Birth Weight in Nulliparas: Secondary Analysis of a Prospective Cohort Study.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2025Article
- Fetal Body Composition and Organ Volume Trajectories in Association With Maternal Perceived Stress or Depressive Symptoms in the Fetal 3D Study.Journal of ultrasound in medicine : official journal of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine · 2025Article
- Reduced fetal ductus venosus shunt fraction is associated with adverse perinatal outcomes in pregnancy with pregestational diabetes mellitus.Archives of gynecology and obstetrics · 2025Observational
- Multiethnic growth standards for fetal body composition and organ volumes derived from 3D ultrasonography.American journal of obstetrics and gynecology · 2025Article
- Relationship between gestational weight gain with fetal body composition and organ volumes in the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Fetal Dimensional Study: a prospective pregnancy cohort.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2025Article
- Origins of obesity in the womb: Fetal adiposity and its determinants.The journal of obstetrics and gynaecology research · 2024Review
- Impact of Nutrient Intake on Body Composition in Very Low-Birth Weight Infants Following Early Progressive Enteral Feeding.Nutrients · 2024Article
- The NICHD Fetal 3D Study: A Pregnancy Cohort Study of Fetal Body Composition and Volumes.American journal of epidemiology · 2024Article
- Point: Abnormalities of foetal growth-Is it time to move towards a personalised medicine approach to predict adverse neonatal outcomes?Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology · 2024Article
- AI-Enhanced Analysis Reveals Impact of Maternal Diabetes on Subcutaneous Fat Mass in Fetuses without Growth Alterations.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
- Dietary Implications of Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids during Pregnancy and in Neonates.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Dousing the flame: reviewing the mechanisms of inflammatory programming during stress-induced intrauterine growth restriction and the potential for ω-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid intervention.Frontiers in physiology · 2023Review
- Pregnancies complicated by gestational diabetes and fetal growth restriction: an analysis of maternal and fetal body composition using magnetic resonance imaging.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2023Article
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Abstract
Based on epidemiological and experimental evidence, the origins of childhood obesity and early onset metabolic syndrome can be extended back to developmental processes during intrauterine life. It is necessary to actively investigate antecedent conditions that affect fetal growth by developing reliable measures to identify variations in fetal fat deposition and body composition. Recently, the resolution of ultrasonography has remarkably improved, which enables better tissue characterization and quantification of fetal fat accumulation. In addition, fetal fractional limb volume has been introduced as a novel measure to quantify fetal soft tissue volume, including fat mass and lean mass. Detecting extreme variations in fetal fat deposition may provide further insights into the origins of altered fetal body composition in pathophysiological conditions (i.e., fetal growth restriction or fetal macrosomia), which are predisposed to the metabolic syndrome in later life. Further studies are warranted to determine the maternal or placental factors that affect fetal fat deposition and body composition. Elucidating these factors may help develop clinical interventions for altered fetal growth and body composition, which could potentially lead to primary prevention of the future risk of metabolic dysfunction.
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