Response to Comment on Kulkarni et al. Maternal Lipids Are as Important as Glucose for Fetal Growth: Findings From the Pune Maternal Nutrition Study. Diabetes Care 2013;36:2706–2713 | Zendy

Smita Kulkarni | Zendy; Kalyanaraman Kumaran | Zendy; Shobha Rao | Zendy; S. Chougule | Zendy; Tukaram M. Deokar | Zendy; Ankush B. Bhalerao | Zendy; Vishnu A. Solat | Zendy; Dattatray Bhat | Zendy; Caroline Fall | Zendy; Chittaranjan S. Yajnik | Zendy

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Response to Comment on Kulkarni et al. Maternal Lipids Are as Important as Glucose for Fetal Growth: Findings From the Pune Maternal Nutrition Study. Diabetes Care 2013;36:2706–2713

Author(s) -

Smita Kulkarni,

Kalyanaraman Kumaran,

Shobha Rao,

S. Chougule,

Tukaram M. Deokar,

Ankush B. Bhalerao,

Vishnu A. Solat,

Dattatray Bhat,

Caroline Fall,

Chittaranjan S. Yajnik

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

diabetes care

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 6.636

H-Index - 363

eISSN - 1935-5548

pISSN - 0149-5992

DOI - 10.2337/dc13-2270

Subject(s) - medicine , overweight , diabetes mellitus , cholesterol , obesity , birth weight , endocrinology , total cholesterol , fetal growth , body mass index , fetus , pediatrics , obstetrics , pregnancy , biology , genetics

We thank Sahoo et al. (1) for their interest in our article (2) and for their comments. Our study did not show an association between HDL cholesterol levels and birth size (2). Sahoo et al. allude to three articles (3–5) that suggest that our findings are unusual. However, we believe our results are compatible with these studies. In the study by Misra et al. (3), there was an inverse relationship between HDL cholesterol and birth weight only in overweight/obese women (i.e., BMI >25 kg/m2). In our study, the average BMI was ∼18 kg/m2, and this may explain …

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