CONCLUSION
Greater abdominal muscle thicknesses and a smaller IRD during late
pregnancy appear to be related to better neonate CB gas values. Further
studies are need to determine whether hormones are released in greater
quantity by thicker skeletal muscles, and how higher concentrations
might affect foetal oxygenation.
Acknowledgements: The authors thank funders and Adrian Burton
for editing assistance.
Disclosure of Interests: None to declare.
Contribution to Authorship: LBG had full access to all of the
data in the study, took responsibility for the integrity of the data and
the accuracy of the data analyses and interpreted the data and drafted
the initial manuscript; OOC, MFA, IRC, PAM, and VAA conceptualized and
designed the study, interpreted the data, and collected data. All
authors were involved in drafting the article and revising it for
important intellectual content. All authors have read and approved the
final version of the manuscript and agreed with the order of
presentation of the authors.
Details of Ethics Approval : The GESTAFIT project was approved
by the Clinical Research Ethics Committee (code: GESTAFIT-0448-N-15,
approved on 19/05/2015).
Funding: The present study was partially funded by the Regional
Ministry of Health of the Junta de AndalucĂa (PI-0395-2016) and the
Research and Knowledge Transfer Fund (PPIT) 2016, Excellence Actions
Programme: Scientific Units of Excellence (UCEES), and the Regional
Ministry of Economy, Knowledge, Enterprises and University, European
Regional Development Funds (ref. SOMM17/6107/UGR). MFA was additionally
funded by the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports (Grant
number FPU17/03715).