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Pre-pregnancy adiposity was associated with offspring growth in early childhood. Although pooled analyses showed no demonstrable difference by 3-months, there were contrasting and opposite associations of gestational glycemia with weight and BMI in the first 36-months in offspring of non-obese and obese mothers separately.
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the inverse relationship between maternal glycemia and BMI at 3 years in the offspring of obese mothers is consistent with the concept of evolutionary mismatch : if the developmental choices made at early development do not match the subsequent environment , the person may demonstrate susceptibility to a particular phenotype.
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the inverse relationship between maternal glycemia and BMI at 3 years in the offspring of obese mothers is consistent with the concept of evolutionary mismatch : if the developmental choices made at early development do not match the subsequent environment , the person may demonstrate susceptibility to a particular phenotype.
Dr Yung Seng Lee
National University of Singapore
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This page is a summary of: Associations of gestational glycemia and prepregnancy adiposity with offspring growth and adiposity in an Asian population, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, September 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP),
DOI: 10.3945/ajcn.115.117614.
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