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Study links placenta to development of gestational diabetes
A deficit in the way the placenta expresses the gene for a hormone called insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1) appears linked to insulin resistance during pregnancy, researchers reported Tuesday ...
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Exercise during pregnancy. A narrative review asking: what do we know?
20 Hopkins et al41 examined whether aerobic exercise training in the second half of pregnancy might be associated with reduced fetal size via changes in the maternal insulin-like growth factor (IGF) ...
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Use of both IGF and collagen markers could improve detection of GH abuse
Collagen peptides and proteins of the insulin-like growth factor (IGF)–growth hormone (GH) axis are potential markers of GH abuse. Nelson et al. conducted a randomized, double-blind, placebo ...