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Mediators Linking Maternal Weight to Birthweight and Neonatal Fat Mass in Healthy Pregnancies

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JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ENDOCRINOLOGY & METABOLISM
卷 106, 期 7, 页码 1977-1993

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ENDOCRINE SOC
DOI: 10.1210/clinem/dgab166

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body mass index; gestational weight gain; adiponectin; leptin; fetal growth; neonatal fat mass

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  1. South-Eastern Norway Regional Health Authority

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The study suggests that placental weight is the main mediator linking pregestational BMI and gestational weight gain to birthweight and neonatal fat mass percentage. Maternal mediators only partially mediate the effect of pBMI, while placental weight is the main mediator in this association.
Context: Lifestyle interventions have not efficaciously reduced complications caused by maternal weight on fetal growth, requiring insight into explanatory mediators. Objective: We hypothesized that maternal mediators, including adiponectin, leptin, insulin, and glucose, mediate effects of pregestational BMI (pBMI) and gestational weight gain (GWG) on birthweight and neonatal fat mass percentage (FM%) through placental weight and fetal mediators, including insulin levels (I-fv) and venous-arterial glucose difference (Delta G(fva)). Hypothesized confounders were maternal age, gestational age, and parity. Methods: A cross-sectional study of healthy mother-offspring-pairs (n = 165) applying the 4-vessel in vivo sampling method at Oslo University Hospital, Norway. We obtained pBMI, GWG, birthweight, and placental weight. FM% was available and calculated for a subcohort (n = 84). We measured circulating levels of adiponectin, leptin, glucose, and insulin and performed path analysis and traditional mediation analyses based on linear regression models. Results: The total effect of pBMI and GWG on newborn size was estimated to be 30 g (range, 16-45 g) birthweight and 0.17 FM% (range, 0.04-0.29 FM%) per kg.m(-2) pBMI and 31 g (range, 18-44 g) and 0.24 FM% (range, 0.10-0.37 FM%) per kg GWG. The placental weight was the main mediator, mediating 25-g birthweight and 0.11 FM% per kg.m(-2) pBMI and 25-g birthweight and 0.13 FM% per kg GWG. The maternal mediators mediated a smaller part of the effect of pBMI (3.8-g birthweight and 0.023 FM% per kg.m(-2) pBMI) but not GWG. Conclusion: Placental weight was the main mediator linking pBMI and GWG to birthweight and FM%. The effect of pBMI, but not GWG, on birthweight and FM%, was also mediated via the maternal and fetal mediators.

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