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Maternal Circulating Placental Growth Factor and Neonatal Metabolic Health Biomarkers in Small for Gestational Age Infants

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Title
Maternal Circulating Placental Growth Factor and Neonatal Metabolic Health Biomarkers in Small for Gestational Age Infants
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Frontiers in endocrinology, April 2018
DOI 10.3389/fendo.2018.00198
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Hua He, Anne Monique Nuyt, Zhong-Cheng Luo, Francois Audibert, Lise Dubois, Shu-Qin Wei, Haim A. Abenhaim, Emmanuel Bujold, Isabelle Marc, Pierre Julien, William D. Fraser, 3D Study Group

Abstract

Small for gestational age (SGA) infants are at increased risk of type 2 diabetes in adulthood. It is unknown whether any prenatal biomarkers are helpful for identifying SGA infants with altered metabolic health profile at birth or later life. In a nested study of 162 SGA (birth weight < 10th percentile) and 161 optimal birth weight (25th-75th percentiles) control infants in the 3D (design, develop and discover) birth cohort in Canada, we assessed whether maternal circulating placental growth factor (PlGF), a biomarker of placental function, is associated with metabolic health biomarkers in SGA infants. Main outcomes were cord plasma insulin, proinsulin, insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I), leptin, and high-molecular weight (HMW) adiponectin concentrations. Maternal PlGF concentrations at 32-35 weeks of gestation were substantially lower in SGA versus control infants (P < 0.001), so as were cord plasma proinsulin (P = 0.005), IGF-I (P < 0.001), leptin (P < 0.001), and HMW adiponectin (P = 0.002) concentrations. In SGA infants with both low (<25th percentile) and normal maternal PlGF concentrations, cord plasma IGF-I and leptin concentrations were lower than control infants, but the decreases were to a greater extent in SGA infants with low maternal PlGF. Cord blood leptin levels were lower comparing SGA infants with low vs. normal maternal PlGF levels (P = 0.01). SGA infants with low maternal circulating PlGF levels at late gestation were characterized by greater decreases in cord blood IGF-I and leptin concentrations. Maternal circulating PlGF appears to be associated with neonatal metabolic health profile in SGA infants.

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Unknown 33 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 7 21%
Student > Master 5 15%
Researcher 4 12%
Student > Ph. D. Student 3 9%
Professor 2 6%
Other 2 6%
Unknown 10 30%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 7 21%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 5 15%
Nursing and Health Professions 4 12%
Computer Science 1 3%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 3%
Other 2 6%
Unknown 13 39%
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