ESPE Yearbook of Paediatric Endocrinology

Brief Summary: This prospective singleton birth cohort (N=288, 43.4% male) from Flanders, Belgium, was a subset of a larger longitudinal cohort (ENVIRONAGE). The authors used a targeted proteomic panel to measure 386 inflammatory-related proteins in cord blood and examined their associations with birth weight (BW), birth weight ratio (BWR - BW divided by the median BW for gestational age for sex and parity), and rapid infant weight gain (defined as [weight z score at 12 m minu...