Multiple births lead to weight gain and other problems for mouse moms and male offspring
Thursday, January 26, 2012 - 17:00
in Health & Medicine
Women have long bemoaned the fact that as they have more children, their weight gain from pregnancy becomes more difficult to lose. A new study using a mouse model that mimics the human effects of multiparity (giving birth more than once) has found that mouse moms who gave birth four times accrued significantly more fat compared to primiparous females (those giving birth once) of similar age.