Perinatal inflammation and childhood adiposity – a gender effect?

Background: To determine the association of maternal and fetal inflammatory factors with gender-specific infant adiposity, independent of leptin.Methods: Analysis of anthropometry from 265 mother–infant pairs at birth and 280 pairs at 6 months from the randomised control trial of low glycaemic index diet in pregnancy (ROLO) study (Randomised control trial of low glycaemic index diet) and their association with Maternal TNF-alpha, interleukin 6...