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Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Department of Pharmacology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Banting & Best Diabetes Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Banting & Best Diabetes Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Department of Physiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Department of Physiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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al. 2020 ). This disparity is associated with sex-specific factors such as differences in circulating levels of estrogen and testosterone ( Macotela et al. 2009 , Yan et al. 2019 , Tramunt et al. 2020 ). Sex hormones also affect body
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Physiology and Pharmacology, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada
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( Szlapinski & Hill 2021 ). In humans, maternal insulin resistance is driven by placental growth hormone, placental lactogen, estrogen, progesterone, and other pregnancy hormones ( Newbern & Freemark 2011 ). During this potential state of metabolic stress, the