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Excessive Gestational Weight Gain: Long-Term Consequences for the Child.

Joanna GlistaAneta WeresEwelina Czenczek-LewandowskaJustyna LeszczakKatarzyna Kalandyk-OsinkoEdyta ŁuszczkiGrzegorz SobekArtur Mazur
Published in: Journal of clinical medicine (2020)
Mothers' weight gain during pregnancy is a factor that promotes overweightness and obesity in the child. Maternal age at birth does not appear to lead to any propensity toward overweightness and obesity in the later life of a child.
Keyphrases
  • weight gain
  • birth weight
  • body mass index
  • mental health
  • weight loss
  • metabolic syndrome
  • insulin resistance
  • type diabetes
  • pregnant women
  • physical activity
  • skeletal muscle