Background And Objective: Imprinted genes are important for the offspring development. To assess the relationship between obesity-related methylation and and gene expression and offspring growth and body composition.
Methods: Thirty-nine overweight/obese and 25 normal weight pregnant women were selected from the "Araraquara Cohort Study" according to their pre-pregnancy BMI.
Objective: To investigate associations of maternal and cord blood cytokine patterns with newborn size and body composition.
Methods: This cross-sectional study involved 70 pregnant women and their healthy newborns selected from the "Araraquara Cohort Study". Newborn anthropometric measurements were recorded at birth.