Introduction: Due to the growing prevalence of obesity, more women are overweight in early pregnancy (1). Previous studies demonstrated that pre-obesity/obesity is associated with adverse neonatal and obstetric outcomes, namely pre-eclampsia, cesarean delivery, prematurity, macrosomia, neonatal intensive care unit admissions and stillbirth (2,3). There is also evidence that excessive gestational weight gain is ...
Obesity is a public health problem and a risk factor for pathologies such type 2 diabetes mellitus, cardiovascular diseases, and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. Given these clinical implications, there is a growing interest to understand the pathophysiological mechanism of obesity. Changes in lipid metabolism have been associated with obesity and obesity-related complications. However, changes in the lipid pr...
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