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Cord blood levels of osteopontin as a phenotype marker of gestational age and neonatal morbidities.
Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) - 1 May 2014
Joung Kyoung Eun, Christou Helen, Park Kyung-Hee, Mantzoros Christos S
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OBJECTIVES: Osteopontin (OPN) is a proinflammatory cytokine associated with metabolic syndrome. Extreme birth weight categories including small for gestational age (SGA), and large for gestational age (LGA) are risk factors for metabolic syndrome. However normal levels of plasma OPN in neonates and the relationship of OPN to fetal growth remain unknown. We evaluated the association of umbilical cord blood OPN...
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