| Literature DB >> 20006765 |
Lourdes Ibáñez1, Giorgia Sebastiani, Marta Diaz, Maria Dolores Gómez-Roig, Abel Lopez-Bermejo, Francis de Zegher.
Abstract
Breast-fed infants born small-for-gestational-age (SGA) (n = 28) were found to develop lower adiposity across early infancy, when compared with appropriate-for-gestational age infants (n = 46). The SGA infants were also found to have 2-fold higher (P < .001) levels of circulating leptin at 4 months. This paradoxical hyperleptinemia in early infancy may contribute to a program that produces a process from fetal underweight to adult overweight.Entities:
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Year: 2010 PMID: 20006765 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2009.06.050
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Pediatr ISSN: 0022-3476 Impact factor: 4.406