ArticleJournal of obesity2012
Maternal and Early Childhood Risk Factors for Overweight and Obesity among Low-Income Predominantly Black Children at Age Five Years: A Prospective Cohort Study.
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- The association between maternal body mass index and child obesity: A systematic review and meta-analysis.PLoS medicine · 2019Pooled it
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- Ten-Year Differences in Nutritional Status and Obesity-Related Risk Factors in Polish Preschool Children.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Prevalence of overweight/obesity and associated factors among under-five children in Ethiopia: A multilevel analysis of nationally representative sample.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- Investigating socioecological obesogenic factors in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- Childhood overweight and obesity among the Saudi population: a case-control study among school children.Journal of health, population, and nutrition · 2021Article
- Excessive Gestational Weight Gain: Long-Term Consequences for the Child.Journal of clinical medicine · 2020Article
- Effectiveness of a new approach for exclusive breastfeeding counselling on breastfeeding prevalence, infant growth velocity and postpartum weight loss in overweight or obese women: protocol for a randomized controlled trial.International breastfeeding journal · 2020Article
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Abstract
Objective. To identify maternal and early childhood risk factors for obesity and overweight among children at age 5 in the state of Alabama. Methods. We recruited 740 mothers during early pregnancy from University of Alabama Prenatal Clinics in a prospective cohort study and followed them throughout pregnancy. We followed their children from birth until 5 years of age. The main outcome measure was obesity (BMI for age and sex ≥ 95th percentile) at 5 years of age. We used poisson regression with robust variance estimation to compute risk ratio (RR). Results. At the 5th year of followup, 71 (9.6%) of the children were obese and 85 (11.5%) were overweight (BMI ≥ 85th-<95th percentile). In multivariable analysis, maternal prepregnancy overweight (RR: 2.30, 95% CI: 1.29-4.11) and obesity (RR: 2.53, 95% CI: 1.49-4.31), and child's birth weight >85th percentile (RR: 2.04, 95% CI: 1.13-3.68) were associated with childhood obesity. Maternal prepregnancy BMI, birth weight, and maternal smoking were associated with the child being overweight 1-12 cigarettes/day versus 0 cigarettes/day (RR: 1.40, 95% CI: 1.02-1.91). Conclusion. Children of overweight and obese mothers, and children with higher birth weight, are more likely to be obese and overweight at age 5. Maternal smoking 1-12 cigarettes per day is associated with the child being overweight.
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