Rita Malpique
University of Barcelona
13 Papers
44 Citations
Rita Malpique is an academic researcher from University of Barcelona. The author has contributed to research in topics: Body mass index & Polycystic ovary. The author has an hindex of 6, co-authored 13 publications. Previous affiliations of Rita Malpique include Hospital Sant Joan de Déu Barcelona & Carlos III Health Institute.
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Papers
Brown adipose tissue in prepubertal children: associations with sex, birthweight, and metabolic profile
Rita Malpique,Rita Malpique,José M. Gallego-Escuredo,Giorgia Sebastiani,Giorgia Sebastiani,Joan Villarroya,Abel López-Bermejo,Francis de Zegher,Francesc Villarroya,Francesc Villarroya,Lourdes Ibáñez,Lourdes Ibáñez +11 more
TL;DR: Prepubertal AGA girls had significantly greater BAT activation index as compared to AGA boys; this difference was not observed in SGA subjects; long-term follow-up is needed to determine whether those differences relate to pubertal timing, and to the development of obesity and metabolic disorders.
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Towards a simple marker of hepato-visceral adiposity and insulin resistance: The Z-score change from weight-at-birth to BMI-in-childhood.
TL;DR: In this paper, the Z-score change from birth weight to body mass index (BMI) in childhood was used as a proxy for hepato-visceral adiposity and insulin resistance in prepubertal children.
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Liver volume and hepatic adiposity in childhood: relations to body growth and visceral fat.
Rita Malpique,Judit Bassols,Abel López-Bermejo,Marta Díaz,Francesc Villarroya,J Pavia,A Congo,F. de Zegher,Lourdes Ibáñez +8 more
TL;DR: The trajectory from prenatal restraint, via postnatal catch-up, to hepato-visceral adiposity and insulin resistance does not appear to be detectably influenced by prepubertal alterations of liver volume.
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Toward a Simple Marker of Hepato-Visceral Adiposity and Insulin Resistance:The Z-Score Change from Weight-at-Birth to BMI-in-Childhood
Rita Malpique,Zegher Francis de,Cristina Garcia-Beltran,Lourdes Ibáñez +3 more
- 22 Aug 2019
TL;DR: Insulin resistance and hepato‐visceral (central) fat excess are thought to contribute to an earlier timing of adrenarche/pubarche and puberty/menarche, which relates often to a mismatch between prenatal and postnatal weight gain, which can be estimated by calculating the Z‐score change from birth weight (BW) to body mass index (BMI) in childhood.
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microRNAs in newborns with low birth weight: relation to birth size and body composition.
Cristina Garcia-Beltran,Gemma Carreras-Badosa,Judit Bassols,Rita Malpique,Cristina Plou,Francis de Zegher,Abel López-Bermejo,Lourdes Ibáñez +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the miRNA expression pattern in both umbilical cord serum samples from LBW and appropriate-for-gestational-age (AGA) newborns and maternal serum samples in the 3rd trimester of gestation was analyzed.
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