Tag Rebecca A. Simmons

Introduction Glucose is the primary substrate for the growing and developing fetus, and in normal human pregnancies there is little fetal gluconeogenesis. Glucose is required by most cells for oxidative and nonoxidative adenosine triphosphate (ATP) production and serves as a…

Key Points Normal fetal growth is determined by a number of factors. The pattern of normal fetal growth involves rapid increases in fetal weight, length, and head circumference during the last half of gestation. Year-over-year increases in birth weight for…