Parental factors affecting the weights of the placenta and the offspring

Journal of Perinatal Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 27-34

  L'Abée, Carianne ^a,b   Vrieze, Ingrid ^a   Kluck, Tom ^c   Erwich, Jan Jaap H M ^b   Stolk, Ronald P ^b   Sauer, Pieter J J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c Scheper Ziekenhuis   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Birth weight; obstetrics; parents; placenta

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL ABUSE; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY MASS; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; INCOME; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NETHERLANDS; PARENT; PARENTAL SMOKING; PARITY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PLACENTA WEIGHT; POPULATION BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; THYROID DISEASE; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; WEIGHT GAIN;

ADULT; BIRTH WEIGHT; FATHERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ORGAN SIZE; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY;

EID: 78651379153     PISSN: 03005577     EISSN: 16193997     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/JPM.2010.119     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. Barker DJP, Bull AR, Osmond C, Simmonds SJ. Fetal and placental size and risk of hypertension in adult life. Br Med J. 1990;301:259-62.
2. Bleker OP, Buimer M, van der Post JA, van der Veen F. Ted (GJ.) Kloosterman: on intrauterine growth. The significance of prenatal care. Studies on birth weight, placental weight and placental index. Placenta. 2006;27:1052-4.
3. Cole TJ, Bellizzi MC, Flegal KM, Dietz WH. Establishing a standard definition for child overweight and obesity world-wide: international survey. Br Med J. 2000;320:1240-3.
4. de Moura EG, Passos MC. Neonatal programming of body weight regulation and energetic metabolism. Biosci Rep. 2005;25:251-69.
5. Frederick IO, Williams MA, Sales AE, Martin DP, Killien M. Pre-pregnancy body mass index, gestational weight gain, and other maternal characteristics in relation to infant birth weight. Matern Child Health J. 2008;12:557-67.
6. Godfrey KM. The role of the placenta in fetal programming-a review. Placenta. 2002;23(Suppl A):S20-7.
7. Gruenwald P. The supply line of the fetus: definitions relating to fetal growth. In: Gruenwald P editor. The placenta and its maternal supply line. Lancaster: Medical and Technical Pub-lishing; 1975. pp. 1-17.
8. Hindmarsh PC, Geary MP, Rodeck CH, Kingdom JC, Cole TJ. Factors predicting ante-and postnatal growth. Pediatr Res. 2008;63:99-102.
9. Hirasing RA, Fredriks AM, van Buuren S, Verloove-Vanho-rick SP, Wit JM. Increased prevalence of overweight and obe-sity in Dutch children, and the detection of overweight and obesity using international criteria and new reference dia-grams. Ned Tijschr Geneeskd. 2001;145:1303-8.
10. Hyppönen E, Power C, Smith GD. Parental growth at differ-ent life stages and offspring birthweight: an intergenerational cohort study. Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol. 2004;18:168-77.
11. Jovanovic-Peterson L, Peterson CM, Reed GF, Metzger BE, Mills JL, Knopp RH, et al., Maternal postprandial glucose levels and infant birth weight: the Diabetes in Early Pregnan-cy Study. The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development-Diabetes in Early Pregnancy Study. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 1991;164(1 Pt 1):103-11.
12. Kabali C, Werler MM. Pre-pregnant body mass index, weight gain and the risk of delivering large babies among non-dia-betic mothers. Int J Gynaecol Obstet. 2007;97:100-4.
13. L'Abée C, Sauer PJ, Damen M, Rake JP, Cats H, Stolk RP. Cohort Profile: the GECKO Drenthe study, overweight pro-gramming during early childhood. Int J Epidemiol. 2008;37: 486-9.
14. Little RE. Mother's and father's birthweight as predictors of infant birth weight. Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol. 1987:1:19-31.
15. May R. Prepregnancy weight, inappropriate gestational weight gain, and smoking: relationships to birth weight. Am J Hum Biol. 2007;19:305-10.
16. Moore VM, Miller AG, Boulton TJ, Cockington RA, Craig IH, Magarey AM, et al. Placental weight, birth measurements, and blood pressure at age 8 years. Arch Dis Child 1996;74:538-41.
17. Ong KK. Size at birth, postnatal growth and risk of obesity Horm Res. 2006;65(Suppl 3):65-9.
18. Phillips DI, Jones A, Goulden PA. Birth weight, stress, and the metabolic syndrome in adult life. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2006;1083:28-36.
19. Pringle PJ, Geary MP, Rodeck CH, Kingdom JC, Kayamba-Kay's S, Hindmarsh PC The influence of cigarette smoking on antenatal growth, birth size, and the insulin-like growth factor axis. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2005;90:2556-62.
20. Puska P, Nishida C, Porter D. Obesity and overweight. Gene-va: World Health Organization; 2003. Available at: wwwwho. int/hpr/gs.fs.obesityshtml.
21. Steinbeck KS. Childhood obesity Treatment options. Best Pract Res Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2005;19:455-69. Review.
22. Swanson LD, Bewtra C. Increase in normal placental weights related to increase in maternal body mass index. J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med. 2008;21:111-3.
23. Taricco E, Radaelli T, Nobile de Santis MS, Cetin I. Foetal and placental weights in relation to maternal characteristics in gestational diabetes. Placenta. 2003;24:343-7.
24. Unicef, WHO. Low birth weight. Country, regional and global estimates. New York: Unicef, 2004.
25. Van Den Hurk K, Van Dommelen P, De Wilde JA, Verkerk PH, Van Buuren S, HiraSing RA, (The Netherlands Organi-sation for Applied Scientific Research [TNO]). Prevalentie van overgewicht en obesitas bij jeugdigen 4-15 jaar in de periode 2002-2004. [Prevalence of overweight and obesity in youth aged 4-15 years old in the period 2002-2004. In Dutch]. Leiden: TNO Kwaliteit van Leven, 2006.
26. Voldner N, Frøslie KF, Bo K, Haakstad L, Hoff C, Godang K, et al. Modifiable determinants of fetal macrosomia: role of lifestyle-related factors. Acta Obstet Gynecol Scand. 2008;87:423-9.
27. Voldner N, Qvigstad E, Frøslie KF, Godang K, Henriksen T, Bollderslev J. Increased risk of macrosomia among over-weight women with high gestational rise in fasting glucose. J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med. 2010;23:74-81.
28. Wang Y, Lobstein T. Worldwide trends in childhood over-weight and obesity Int J Pediatr Obes. 2006;1:11-25.
29. Wei JN, Li HY, Sung FC, Lin CC, Chiang CC, Li CY, et al. Birth weight correlates differently with cardiovascular risk factors in youth. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2007;15:1609-16.
30. WIC Nutrition Risk Criteria. A Scientific Assessment. Food and Nutrition Board (FNB) Institute of Medicine. Washington, DC: National Academy Press; 1996.
31. Wiegers TA, van Wieren S. Available at http://www.rivm.nl/vtv/object- document/o2089n29713.html.
32. Zdravkovic T, Genbacev O, McMaster MT, Fisher SJ. The adverse effects of maternal smoking on the human placenta: a review. Placenta. 2005;26(Suppl A):S81-6.