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Serum Leptin Levels in Women Throughout Pregnancy and the Postpartum Period and in Women Suffering Spontaneous Abortion by Mary Lage; Ricardo V. Garcia-Mayor; Maria A. Tomé; Fernando Cordido; Fernando Valle-Inclan; Robert V. Considine; Jose F. Caro; Carlos Dieguez; Felipe F. Casanueva is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
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## Objective: In pregnancy, important changes occur in the body weight of the mother, caused by sodium and water retention and by an increase in body fat tissue, but the mechanisms that regulate maternal and foetal changes in fat mass are poorly understood. leptin is a hormone produced by adipocytes in order to regulate food intake and energy expenditure at the hypothalamic level in man. in order to verify whether leptin participates in the changes in body composition during pregnancy and postpartum, 630 healthy women were studied at specific time periods and leptin and auxological parameters were determined. ## Design: A cross-sectional study in which leptin levels were measured in women at specific time periods related to pregnancy. each woman was assessed only once. ## Patients: 630 women participated in the study, and were divided into categories as follows: group a, 29 internal controls, with no previous or current pregnancy; group b, 73 women in the first trimester of pregnancy; group c, 60 women in the 24 h before delivery; group d, 212 women in the 24 h postpartum; group e, 93 women in the eighth postpartum week (2 months group); group f, 71 women in the sixteenth postpartu
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- Author
- Mary Lage; Ricardo V. Garcia-Mayor; Maria A. Tomé; Fernando Cordido; Fernando Valle-Inclan; Robert V. Considine; Jose F. Caro; Carlos Dieguez; Felipe F. Casanueva
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (Blackwell Publishing); Blackwell Publishing Inc.; Wiley; Research Square (ISSN 0300-0664)
- Published
- 1999
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)