Associations of Maternal Prepregnancy Body Mass Index and Gestational Weight Gain With Adult Offspring Cardiometabolic Risk Factors | Zendy

Hagit Hochner | Zendy; Yechiel Friedlander | Zendy; Ronit CalderonMargalit | Zendy; Vardiella Meiner | Zendy; Yael Wolff Sagy | Zendy; Meytal Avgil-Tsadok | Zendy; Ayala Burger | Zendy; Bella Savitsky | Zendy; David S. Siscovick | Zendy; Orly Manor | Zendy

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Associations of Maternal Prepregnancy Body Mass Index and Gestational Weight Gain With Adult Offspring Cardiometabolic Risk Factors

Author(s) -

Hagit Hochner,

Yechiel Friedlander,

Ronit CalderonMargalit,

Vardiella Meiner,

Yael Wolff Sagy,

Meytal Avgil-Tsadok,

Ayala Burger,

Bella Savitsky,

David S. Siscovick,

Orly Manor

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

circulation

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 7.795

H-Index - 607

eISSN - 1524-4539

pISSN - 0009-7322

DOI - 10.1161/circulationaha.111.070060

Subject(s) - offspring , medicine , waist , body mass index , quartile , endocrinology , weight gain , pregnancy , gestation , confounding , overweight , obstetrics , body weight , biology , confidence interval , genetics

Accumulating evidence demonstrates that both maternal prepregnancy body mass index (mppBMI) and gestational weight gain (GWG) are associated with adult offspring adiposity. However, whether these maternal attributes are related to other cardiometabolic risk factors in adulthood has not been comprehensively studied.

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