ArticleInternational journal of obesity (2005)2014
Social class variation in the predictors of rapid growth in infancy and obesity at age 3 years.
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- Does the association between early life growth and later obesity differ by race/ethnicity or socioeconomic status? A systematic review.Annals of epidemiology · 2017Pooled it
- Effects of parent and child behaviours on overweight and obesity in infants and young children from disadvantaged backgrounds: systematic review with narrative synthesis.BMC public health · 2016Pooled it
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- An innovative postnatal risk assessment and corresponding care pathways in Preventive Child Healthcare.Journal of advanced nursing · 2022Article
- Potentially modifiable mediators for socioeconomic disparities in childhood obesity in the United States.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2022Article
- Predictors of Developmental Patterns of Obesity in Young Children.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2020Article
- Special Report: The Biology of Inequalities in Health: The Lifepath Consortium.Frontiers in public health · 2020Article
- Appropriate age range for introduction of complementary feeding into an infant's diet.EFSA journal. European Food Safety Authority · 2019Article
- Early Eating Patterns and Overweight and Obesity in a Sample of Preschool Children in South-East Poland.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Article
- Reducing fetal origins of childhood obesity through maternal smoking cessation during pregnancy: an intervention study.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2019Article
- Weight Status and Dental Problems in Early Childhood: Classification Tree Analysis of a National Cohort.Dentistry journal · 2017Article
- Maternal smoking during pregnancy and rapid weight gain from birth to early infancy.Journal of epidemiology · 2017Article
- Connecting the Dots in Childhood Obesity Disparities: A Review of Growth Patterns from Birth to Pre-Adolescence.Current epidemiology reports · 2016Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo examine the extent to which early child nutrition, maternal antenatal lifestyle behaviours and child diet and lifestyle explain social class inequalities in the risk of rapid weight gain between birth and 3 years and obesity at age 3 years.
designA longitudinal and prospective birth cohort study. SUBJECTS: Nationally representative sample of 11,134 children and their parents followed from 9 months of age until 3 years. Child weight and maternal height and weight were measured at 9 months and 3 years and child birth weight was extracted from hospital records. Other predictors of child growth and obesity were collected by maternal report at 9 months and 3 years.
resultsAlthough born lighter on average, children of unskilled manual parents were 274 g heavier than children of professional parents by 3 years of age. The fully adjusted model of rapid growth from birth to 3 years of age and obesity at 3 years of age accounted for all social class differentials. Breastfeeding and age at the introduction of solids were associated with the largest average reduction (41%) in the odds ratio (OR) of rapid growth in the first 9 months of life for each class relative to the professional class. In the period from 9 months to 3 years of age, the class differential in rapid growth was reduced most by measures of the child's diet and lifestyle. However, the impact of the groups of predictors varied by social class. For early life growth, among the non-manual classes the proportionate reductions are largest when adjusted for early infant nutrition, whereas maternal prenatal smoking is more important for the manual social classes.
conclusionPreventative interventions to reduce levels of childhood obesity should be multi-dimensional but different dimensions should be given more or less significance depending on socio-economic group.
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