Low birth weight babies in India exhibit fetal hyperinsulinemia, a small fetal potbelly with visceral fat, thin extremities, and limited subcutaneous fat, suggesting intrauterine factors can trigger insulin resistance.

“when you look at the work of dr. C s Yagnik and he's done incredible studies in low birth weight babies in India particularly Pune and he's found that already at a very early stage when the babies are born they're already shown fetal hyperinsulinemia their body habitus is already a small tiny fetal potbelly like visceral fat and very thin extremities when you check their skin fold you basically see that they're already have a limited subcutaneous fat when you compare them to Caucasians”