After controlling for sex, time, maternal age, gestation age, prepregnancy BMI, weight gain during pregnancy, maternal education, parity, history of miscarriage and mode of delivery, for every 1-μg/ml additional increase of maternal blood adiponectin, the height-for-age Z score increased by 2.59 × 10−2 on average during the follow-up period (P = 0.013). Here, ADIPOQ is linked to spontaneous abortion.