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. 2019 Mar 28;3(6):849-850.
doi: 10.1002/hep4.1344. eCollection 2019 Jun.

Preconceptional Maternal Bile Acids and Birth Weight of Neonates

Aafke P A van Montfoort  1   2 , Ruxandra A Nagy  1   3 , Jannie van Echten-Arends  1 , Annemieke Hoek  1 , Uwe J F Tietge  3
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Preconceptional Maternal Bile Acids and Birth Weight of Neonates

Aafke P A van Montfoort et al. Hepatol Commun. .

Abstract

Preconceptional maternal bile acid species are significantly associated with birth weight of the offspring.

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Figure 1
Correlation between maternal serum levels of primary bile acids at the time of conception and birth weight of the neonate. The graphs plot BW z‐score corrected for sex, gestational age at birth, and parity against maternal serum levels of chenodeoxycholic acid (A) or cholic acid (B) at the time of conception.
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