The influence of maternal prepregnancy weight and gestational weight gain on the umbilical cord blood metabolome: a case-control study

• Main Authors: Xianxian Yuan (Author), Yuru Ma (Author), Jia Wang (Author), Yan Zhao (Author), Wei Zheng (Author), Ruihua Yang (Author), Lirui Zhang (Author), Xin Yan (Author), Guanghui Li (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2024-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Maternal overweight/obesity and excessive gestational weight gain (GWG) are frequently reported to be risk factors for obesity and other metabolic disorders in offspring. Cord blood metabolites provide information on fetal nutritional and metabolic health and could provide an ear...