Reduced Prenatal Weight Gain and/or Augmented Postnatal Weight Gain Precedes Polycystic Ovary Syndrome in Adolescent Girls.
Francis de ZegherThomas ReinehrRita MalpiqueFeyza DarendelilerAbel López-BermejoLourdes IbañezPublished in: Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) (2017)
PCOS in adolescent girls was preceded by marked z score increments between weight at birth and BMI at PCOS diagnosis, thus corroborating the notion that PCOS development is driven by a mismatch between prenatal weight gain and postnatal weight gain.