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University of Texas-Austin: Weight Gain in Pregnancy May Be Linked to Later Growth Patterns in Daughters
February 10, 2022
AUSTIN, Texas, Feb. 10 (TNSJou) -- The University of Texas issued the following news release on Feb. 9, 2022:

Rapid weight gain in the first and final months of a pregnancy may play a key role in the development of excess fat tissue in children and adolescents - at least if those children are girls, according to a new study from researchers at The University of Texas at Austin.

In the study, published today in the journal Obesity, nutritional sciences researchers looked . . .

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