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Fetal metabolic influences of neonatal anthropometry and adiposity

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Pediatrics, November 2015
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Title
Fetal metabolic influences of neonatal anthropometry and adiposity
Published in
BMC Pediatrics, November 2015
DOI 10.1186/s12887-015-0499-0
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Jean M. Donnelly, Karen L. Lindsay, Jennifer M. Walsh, Mary Horan, Eleanor J Molloy, Fionnuala M. McAuliffe

Abstract

Large for gestational age infants have an increased risk of obesity, cardiovascular and metabolic complications during life. Knowledge of the key predictive factors of neonatal adiposity is required to devise targeted antenatal interventions. Our objective was to determine the fetal metabolic factors that influence regional neonatal adiposity in a cohort of women with previous large for gestational age offspring. Data from the ROLO [Randomised COntrol Trial of LOw Glycaemic Index in Pregnancy] study were analysed in the ROLO Kids study. Neonatal anthropometric and skinfold measurements were compared with fetal leptin and C-peptide results from cord blood in 185 cases. Analyses were performed to examine the association between these metabolic factors and birthweight, anthropometry and markers of central and generalised adiposity. Fetal leptin was found to correlate with birthweight, general adiposity and multiple anthropometric measurements. On multiple regression analysis, fetal leptin remained significantly associated with adiposity, independent of gender, maternal BMI, gestational age or study group assignment, while fetal C-peptide was no longer significant. Fetal leptin may be an important predictor of regional neonatal adiposity. Interventional studies are required to assess the impact of neonatal adiposity on the subsequent risk of childhood obesity and to determine whether interventions which reduce circulating leptin levels have a role to play in improving neonatal adiposity measures.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
New Zealand 1 1%
Unknown 77 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 12 15%
Student > Bachelor 11 14%
Researcher 7 9%
Student > Master 7 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 6 8%
Other 14 18%
Unknown 21 27%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 20 26%
Nursing and Health Professions 13 17%
Sports and Recreations 4 5%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 5%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 4 5%
Other 8 10%
Unknown 25 32%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 10 January 2019.
All research outputs
#6,446,325
of 22,896,955 outputs
Outputs from BMC Pediatrics
#1,220
of 3,018 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#81,050
of 282,884 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Pediatrics
#25
of 62 outputs
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