Maternal Smoking and Metabolic Health Biomarkers in Newborns.

Maternal smoking has been associated with elevated risk of type 2 diabetes among the offspring in adulthood. The mechanisms underlying this fetal "programming" effect remain unclear. The present study sought to explore whether maternal smoking affects metabolic health biomarkers in fetuses...

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Main Authors: Fang Fang, Zhong-Cheng Luo, Anissa Dejemli, Edgard Delvin, Jun Zhang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4658089?pdf=render