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Obesity during Pregnancy and Fetal Iron Status: is Hepcidin the link?

OBJECTIVE: To ascertain the effect of obesity-related inflammation on maternal and fetal iron status. We hypothesized that obese pregnant women would have increased inflammation, hepcidin levels, and that their infants would have impaired iron status compared to lean controls. STUDY DESIGN: Fifteen...

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Autores principales: Dao, Maria Carlota, Sen, Sarbattama, Iyer, Chitra, Klebenov, David, Meydani, Simin Nikbin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3718280/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22722675
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/jp.2012.81