Sex-specific effects of maternal anthropometrics on body composition at birth.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The purpose of this study was to assess whether maternal factors that are associated with fetal lean and fat mass differ between sexes.

Study design

Secondary analysis of a prospective cohort that delivered by scheduled cesarean section from 2004-2013. Maternal blood was collected before surgery for metabolic parameters. Placental weight and neonatal anthropometrics were measured within 48 hours. Anthropometric differences between sexes were assessed with the Student t test. Multiple stepwise regression analysis assessed the relationship between independent maternal variables and neonatal lean body mass (LBM), fat mass (FM), or percentage of fat as dependent variables in male and female infants combined and separately.

Results

We analyzed 360 women with norm

SUBMITTER: O'Tierney-Ginn P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4149857 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature