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This study aimed to characterize maternal and fetal adipokine patterns across obesity severity groups and to evaluate their associations with macrosomia and neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) requirement.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>In this prospective study, 126 singleton pregnancies were stratified into normal-weight, class I obesity, and class II\u2013III obesity groups (n=42 each). Maternal venous and fetal cord blood adiponectin, leptin, asprosin, fetuin-A, retinol-binding protein-4 (RBP-4), adipsin, and glucose transporter-1 (GLUT-1) were assessed at delivery. Macrosomia and NICU requirement were evaluated using group comparisons, receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analyses, and multivariable logistic regression models.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Maternal and fetal adipokine profiles differed significantly across obesity severity groups. Maternal fetuin-A, RBP-4, and adipsin levels, along with fetal leptin, fetuin-A, RBP-4, adipsin, and GLUT-1 levels, increased significantly with increasing obesity severity. In ROC analyses, fetal adipsin showed the highest discrimination for macrosomia (AUC=0.951), whereas fetal RBP-4 showed the highest discrimination for NICU requirement (AUC=0.781). In exploratory adjusted analyses, fetal adipsin remained associated with macrosomia (adjusted OR=5.43, 95% CI 2.14\u201313.77), whereas fetal RBP-4 remained statistically associated with NICU requirement (adjusted OR=3.31, 95% CI 1.87\u20135.86).<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Discussion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Maternal obesity is accompanied by distinct maternal and fetal adipokine remodeling at delivery, with fetal adipsin and RBP-4 showing outcome-specific associations with neonatal macrosomia and NICU requirement, respectively. The compartment-specific biomarker patterns further suggest that the fetal metabolic response to increasing maternal adiposity is not simply a reflection of maternal circulating profiles. 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