INS and Insulin resistance: One of these—a Danish cohort study of 308 19–20-year-old males—found significant positive associations between GWG during the first 30 weeks of gestation (GWG30) and adult offspring systolic blood pressure (SBP), plasma insulin and homeostatic model assessment for insulin resistance (HOMA-IR) (for men only), and significant negative associations between GWG30 and adult offspring total cholesterol and low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol levels [28].