Cord blood insulin, IGF-I, IGF-II, leptin, adiponectin and ghrelin, and their associations with insulin sensitivity, β-cell function and adiposity in infancy.
D L ZhangQ DuA DjemliP JulienW D FraserZhong-Cheng LuoPublished in: Diabetic medicine : a journal of the British Diabetic Association (2018)
The study is the first to show that cord blood adiponectin may be negatively predictive of β-cell function, whereas cord blood ghrelin may be negatively predictive of adiposity in infancy.