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ey0017.2-19 | Maternal Obesity and Long-Term Infant Consequences | ESPEYB17

2.19. Prolonged prepregnant maternal high-fat feeding reduces fetal and neonatal blood glucose concentrations by enhancing fetal [beta]-cell development in C57BL/6 mice

L Qiao , JS Wattez , L Lim , PJ Rozance , WW Jr Hay , J Shao

To read the full abstract: Diabetes. 2019 Aug;68(8):1604–1613. doi: 10.2337/db18-1308. Epub 2019 May 24. PMID: 31127056Maternal obesity is an important risk factor for neonatal hypoglycaemia. Maternal BMI predicts the risk of neonatal hypoglycaemia independently from maternal obesity suggesting that the link between maternal adiposity and neonatal hypoglycaemia is complex. Identifying the u...

ey0015.4-4 | Important for clinical practice | ESPEYB15

4.4 Consensus Based Definition of Growth Restriction in the Newborn

IM Beune , FH Bloomfield , W Ganzevoort , ND Embleton , PJ Rozance , AG van Wassenaer-Leemhuis , K Wynia , SJ Gordijn

To read the full abstract: J Pediatr 2018. 196:71-76Fetal growth restriction describes a fetus who fails to achieve their biological growth potential, remaining smaller than its genetic potential, and occurs in ~10% of pregnancies [22]. FGR and SGA are terms that are often and wrongly used in an interchangeable way. SGA does not inevitably entail a pathological condition, b...