ArticleJournal of developmental origins of health and disease2010
Early infancy - a critical period for development of obesity.
Article in Journal of developmental origins of health and disease, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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- A Systematic Review of Research on Non-Maternal Caregivers' Feeding of Children 0-3 Years.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Pooled it
- Cardiovascular health among young adults: Do childhood neighborhoods matter?SSM - population health · 2026Article
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- Exclusive Breastfeeding and Body Composition in Indian Infants: A Prospective Study.Indian pediatrics · 2025Article
- Four methods to identify sensitive periods of infant weight gain associated with adolescent BMI in a Chinese birth cohort.Scientific reports · 2025Observational
- Study Protocol for the Health Outcomes in Pregnancy and Early Childhood (HOPE) Study: A Mother-Infant Study in American Samoa.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2025Article
- Study protocol for the Health Outcomes in Pregnancy and Early Childhood (HOPE) Study: A mother-infant study in American Samoa.PloS one · 2025Article
- Maternal Feeding Beliefs and Behaviors Relate to Infant Diet and Appetite.Maternal and child health journal · 2023Article
- Trends in overweight and obesity in children under 24 months of age in Mexico (2012-2020): analysis of four national health surveys.Cadernos de saude publica · 2023Article
- Challenges of diet planning for children using artificial intelligence.Nutrition research and practice · 2022Article
- Predicting the earliest deviation in weight gain in the course towards manifest overweight in offspring exposed to obesity in pregnancy: a longitudinal cohort study.BMC medicine · 2022Article
- Associations between KCNQ1 and ITIH4 gene polymorphisms and infant weight gain in early life.Pediatric research · 2022Article
- Grow well/Crecer bien: a protocol for research on infant feeding practices in low-income families.BMC public health · 2020Article
- Childcare Food Provision Recommendations Vary across Australia: Jurisdictional Comparison and Nutrition Expert Perspectives.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Breastfeeding and childhood obesity: A 12-country study.Maternal & child nutrition · 2020Article
- Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices of Australian Trainee Childcare Educators Regarding Their Role in the Feeding Behaviours of Young Children.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Sugar-sweetened beverage consumption among Indigenous Australian children aged 0-3 years and association with sociodemographic, life circumstances and health factors.Public health nutrition · 2020Article
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- Neonatal Adipocytokines and Longitudinal Patterns of Childhood Growth.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2019Article
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Abstract
Abundant epidemiologic evidence from the developed world now shows that more rapid weight gain during the first half of infancy predicts later obesity and cardio-metabolic risk. In countries in transition, in which stunting is still prevalent, distinguishing the effects of gain in weight from linear growth remains a challenge. Moreover, very few studies to date have incorporated body composition measures during infancy, which is key to understanding determinants of infant weight gain that also predict later obesity. In addition to infant feeding type, potential determinants include the perinatal endocrine milieu. Animal and emerging human data raise the possibility that ensuring adequate leptin exposure to the growing fetus may regulate energy balance as the infant grows. Understanding these pathways, as well as examining the balance between cardiovascular and cognitive effects in both term and preterm infants, will point the way toward effective interventions to alter infant growth to prevent later obesity.
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