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CellWell record HH-152855

Maternal weight gain and intestinal permeability marker zonulin in late pregnancy: implications for nutritional and metabolic health

Tuğba Küçükkasap; Elif Rana Akbey; Aziz Kından; Yıldız Akdaş Reis; Yaprak Engin Üstün

BMC Nutrition · 2026

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In pregnant women with normal pre-pregnancy BMI, higher gestational weight gain was associated with increased maternal and fetal serum zonulin, which was modestly inversely linked to neonatal birth weight.

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