Maternal overweight but not paternal overweight before pregnancy is associated with shorter newborn telomere length: evidence from Guangxi Zhuang birth cohort in China

Wei, BC; Shao, YT; Liang, J; Tang, P; Mo, ML; Liu, BH; Huang, HS; Tan, HJJ; Huang, DP; Liu, S; Qiu, XQ

Qiu, XQ (corresponding author), Guangxi Med Univ, Sch Publ Hlth, Dept Epidemiol & Hlth Stat, 22 Shuangyong Rd, Nanning 530021, Guangxi, Peoples R China.; Huang, DP (corresponding author), Guangxi Med Univ, Sch Publ Hlth, Dept Sanit Chem, 22 Shuangyong Rd, Nanning 530021, Guangxi, Peoples R China.; Liu, S (corresponding author), Guangxi Med Univ, Sch Publ Hlth, Dept Maternal Child & Adolescent Hlth, 22 Shuangyong Rd, Nanning 530021, Guangxi, Peoples R China.

BMC PREGNANCY AND CHILDBIRTH, 2021; 21 (1):

Abstract

BackgroundTelomere length (TL) is variable at birth and is inversely associated with body mass index (BMI) in adulthood. A growing number of evidences......

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