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Vitamin B12 and folate concentrations during pregnancy and insulin resistance in the offspring: the Pune Maternal Nutrition Study
Diabetologia · 2007 · Vol. 51(1) · pp. 29–38
Chittaranjan S. Yajnik✉(Dr. D. Y. Patil Medical College, Hospital and Research Centre)Swapna DeshpandeAlan A. Jackson(Southampton General Hospital)Helga Refsum(University of Oxford)Shanshan Rao(Agharkar Research Institute)David J. Fisher(Southampton General Hospital)Dattatray BhatSadanand NaikKurus CoyajiCharudatta JoglekarNiranjan JoshiHimangi LubreeVaishali DeshpandeSonali RegeCaroline Fall(Southampton General Hospital)
Abstract
Low maternal vitamin B12 and high folate status may contribute to the epidemic of adiposity and type 2 diabetes in India.
Folate and B Vitamins ResearchBirth, Development, and HealthGestational Diabetes Research and ManagementInsulin resistanceOffspringVitamin B12EndocrinologyInternal medicinePregnancyMedicineHomeostatic model assessmentDiabetes mellitusInsulin
MeSH terms
Adipose TissueAnthropometryBody CompositionChildFemaleFolic AcidHomocysteineHumansInsulin ResistanceMaleMethylmalonic AcidPregnancyPregnancy ComplicationsVitamin B 12Body Mass Index
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- Medical Research Council
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