Castro, NP;
Simões, FA;
Vaz-de-Lima, LRA;
De Brito, CA;
Luzia, LA;
Devakumar, D;
Rondó, PHC;
(2017)
The Relationship between Maternal Plasma Leptin and Adiponectin Concentrations and Newborn Adiposity.
Nutrients
, 9
(3)
, Article 182. 10.3390/nu9030182.
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Abstract
Increased maternal blood concentrations of leptin and decreased adiponectin levels, which are common disturbances in obesity, may be involved in offspring adiposity by programming fetal adipose tissue development. The aim of this study was to assess the relationship between maternal leptin and adiponectin concentrations and newborn adiposity. This was a cross-sectional study involving 210 healthy mother-newborn pairs from a public maternity hospital in São Paulo, Brazil. Maternal blood samples were collected after delivery and leptin and adiponectin concentrations were measured by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. Newborn body composition was estimated by air displacement plethysmography. The association between maternal leptin and adiponectin concentrations and newborn adiposity (fat mass percentage, FM%) was evaluated by multiple linear regression, controlling for maternal age, socioeconomic status, parity, pre-pregnancy body mass index (BMI), weight gain, gestational age, and newborn age at the time of measurement. No relationship was found between maternal leptin and FM% of male or female newborn infants. Maternal adiponectin (p = 0.001) and pre-pregnancy BMI (p < 0.001; adj. R2 = 0.19) were positively associated with FM% of newborn males, indicating that maternal adiponectin is involved in fetal fat deposition in a sex-specific manner. Large-scale epidemiological, longitudinal studies are necessary to confirm our results.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | The Relationship between Maternal Plasma Leptin and Adiponectin Concentrations and Newborn Adiposity |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.3390/nu9030182 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu9030182 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. (CC BY 4.0). |
| Keywords: | Leptin; adiponectin; adiposity; mother; newborn |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute for Global Health |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1542397 |
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