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Birth weight in relation to leisure time physical activity in adolescence and adulthood: meta-analysis of results from 13 nordic cohorts.
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- Physical activity and associations with health-related quality of life in adults born small for gestational age at term: a prospective cohort study.BMC pediatrics · 2023Article
- Size at birth and accelerometer-measured physical activity or sedentary behavior in healthy term-born adults.American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology Council · 2022Article
- Cardiometabolic Effects of Postnatal High-Fat Diet Consumption in Offspring Exposed to Maternal Protein RestrictionFrontiers in physiology · 2022Review
- Birth-related and current factors associated with physical inactivity in the leisure time in Brazilian adolescents.PloS one · 2022Article
- Exercise Capacity in Young Adults Born Small for Gestational Age.JAMA cardiology · 2021Article
- Effects of early-life exposure to Western diet and voluntary exercise on adult activity levels, exercise physiology, and associated traits in selectively bred High Runner mice.Physiology & behavior · 2021Article
- Association between birth weight and risk of abdominal obesity in children and adolescents: a school-based epidemiology survey in China.BMC public health · 2020Article
- Prenatal and birth predictors of objectively measured physical activity and sedentary time in three population-based birth cohorts in Brazil.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Biological determinants of physical activity across the life course: a "Determinants of Diet and Physical Activity" (DEDIPAC) umbrella systematic literature review.Sports medicine - open · 2019Review
- Multi-behavioral obesogenic phenotypes among school-aged boys and girls along the birth weight continuum.PloS one · 2019Article
- Sex Differences in Birth Weight and Physical Activity in Japanese Schoolchildren.Journal of epidemiology · 2018Article
- Diversity of leisure-time sport activities in adolescence as a predictor of leisure-time physical activity in adulthood.Scandinavian journal of medicine & science in sports · 2017Article
- Prenatal determinants of physical activity and cardiorespiratory fitness in adolescence - Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1986 study.BMC public health · 2017Article
- Objectively-measured physical activity in children is influenced by social indicators rather than biological lifecourse factors: Evidence from a Brazilian cohort.Preventive medicine · 2017Article
- Maternal gestational weight gain and objectively measured physical activity among offspring.PloS one · 2017Article
- Birth Weight, School Sports Ability, and Adulthood Leisure-Time Physical Activity.Medicine and science in sports and exercise · 2017Article
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Abstract
backgroundPrenatal life exposures, potentially manifested as altered birth size, may influence the later risk of major chronic diseases through direct biologic effects on disease processes, but also by modifying adult behaviors such as physical activity that may influence later disease risk. METHODS/PRINCIPAL
findingsWe investigated the association between birth weight and leisure time physical activity (LTPA) in 43,482 adolescents and adults from 13 Nordic cohorts. Random effects meta-analyses were performed on categorical estimates from cohort-, age-, sex- and birth weight specific analyses. Birth weight showed a reverse U-shaped association with later LTPA; within the range of normal weight the association was negligible but weights below and above this range were associated with a lower probability of undertaking LTPA. Compared with the reference category (3.26-3.75 kg), the birth weight categories of 1.26-1.75, 1.76-2.25, 2.26-2.75, and 4.76-5.25 kg, had odds ratios of 0.67 (95% confidence interval: 0.47, 0.94), 0.72 (0.59, 0.88), 0.89 (0.79, 0.99), and 0.65 (0.50, 0.86), respectively. The shape and strength of the birth weight-LTPA association was virtually independent of sex, age, gestational age, educational level, concurrent body mass index, and smoking. CONCLUSIONS/SIGNIFICANCE: The association between birth weight and undertaking LTPA is very weak within the normal birth weight range, but both low and high birth weights are associated with a lower probability of undertaking LTPA, which hence may be a mediator between prenatal influences and later disease risk.
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