2018, Number 3
Chronic non-communicable diseases and body adiposity during and after pregnancy
Orozco MC, Caņizares LO, Sarasa MNL
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Language: Spanish
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Page: 255-264
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ABSTRACT
Excessive accumulations of adipose tissue underlie in the origin of different diseases. Adiposity during pregnancy, expressed or not as overweight or obesity, constitutes a threat for maternal and fetal well-being, and its continuity towards postpartum can cause maternal cardiometabolic vulnerability. This article has as objective to systematize a group of cellular, molecular and genetic knowledge related to the pathogenesis of some chronic non-communicable diseases in women during and after pregnancy in conditions of body adiposity.