Associations Between Maternal and Cord Blood Leptin Levels and Anthropometry of Mothers and Infants
Hans Demmelmair, Johanna Bruder, Sultan Nilay Can, Jeannie Horak, Martin Klingenspor, Oraporn Dumrongwongsiri, Berthold Koletzko, Helmut Schroder · 2026
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Hans Demmelmair leads an eight-author team in Bangkok examining how a mother's body and the hormone leptin relate to her baby's size. Birth weight predicts later obesity risk, and leptin, a satiety hormone made by fat tissue, was a candidate link. In a subgroup of 38 mother-infant pairs, the team measured leptin in maternal blood at delivery and at four months. Cord blood and infant blood at four months were also measured.
Maternal leptin fell sharply after birth, from 32.4 to 11.1 nanograms per milliliter. Cord blood leptin ran more than twice as high in girls as in boys, and mothers' and babies' levels did not correlate. Birth weight tied strongly to the mother's pre-pregnancy BMI. Higher maternal leptin at delivery went with lower birth weight, a twist the authors flag. Cord leptin only tended toward a positive link with birth weight.
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| CREATOR | Hans Demmelmair, Johanna Bruder, Sultan Nilay Can, Jeannie Horak, Martin Klingenspor, Oraporn Dumrongwongsiri, Berthold Koletzko, Helmut Schroder |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 24 KB |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |