Endocrine Abstracts

Objectives: Maternal metabolism has a major impact on foetal growth, and the risk of developing obesity, cardiovascular disease and diabetes in later life. Identification of maternal metabolic parameters in early pregnancy that predict birth weight (BW), is pivotal in the prevention of these diseases. We evaluated whether maternal triglyceride (TG) or fructosamine levels in early pregnancy, as possible reflectors of maternal insulin resistance (IR), could predominantly contrib...