Differences in maternal and neonatal cardiometabolic markers and placenta status by foetal sex. The GESTAFIT project.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

To explore the differences in some maternal-neonatal metabolic markers and placenta status by foetal sex.

Methods

One hundred thirty-nine Caucasian pregnant women from the GESTAFIT project and their new-borns were included in the present cross-sectional study. Serum cardiometabolic markers (i.e. lipid and glycaemic profile and uric acid) were analysed at late pregnancy and at birth. In placenta, telomeres length, proportion of deleted mitochondrial-DNA and mitochondrial-DNA density, some minerals and interleukin 8, epidermal growth factor, fibroblast growth factor-2 and vascular endothelial growth factor were measured. The study was run between November 2015 and April 2018.

Results

Mothers carrying a male showed higher serum triglycerides than mothers carrying a

SUBMITTER: Aparicio VA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9393354 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature