ArticleDiabetes care2014
Birth weight and risk of type 2 diabetes in the black women's health study: does adult BMI play a mediating role?
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- Admixture mapping of anthropometric traits in the Black Women's Health Study: evidence of a shared African ancestry component with birth weight and type 2 diabetes.Journal of human genetics · 2022Article
- The Causal Evidence of Birth Weight and Female-Related Traits and Diseases: A Two-Sample Mendelian Randomization Analysis.Frontiers in genetics · 2022Article
- Association of diabetes-related variants in ADCY5 and CDKAL1 with neonatal insulin, C-peptide, and birth weight.Endocrine · 2021Article
- Glycaemic control and outcomes in children with type 2 diabetes diagnosed at or before 10 years of age.Endocrinology, diabetes & metabolism · 2021Article
- Development and Validation of a Risk Score to Predict Low Birthweight Using Characteristics of the Mother: Analysis from BUNMAP Cohort in Ethiopia.Journal of clinical medicine · 2020Article
- Birth Weight and Stroke in Adult Life: Genetic Correlation and Causal Inference With Genome-Wide Association Data Sets.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2020Article
- Association of Birth Weight With Type 2 Diabetes and Glycemic Traits: A Mendelian Randomization Study.JAMA network open · 2019Article
- Causal Association Between Birth Weight and Adult Diseases: Evidence From a Mendelian Randomization Analysis.Frontiers in genetics · 2019Article
- Pre- and perinatal factors and incidence of breast cancer in the Black Women's Health Study.Cancer causes & control : CCC · 2019Article
- Birthweight, Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus, and Cardiovascular Disease: Addressing the Barker Hypothesis With Mendelian Randomization.Circulation. Genomic and precision medicine · 2018Article
- Prenatal Development and Adolescent Obesity: Two Distinct Pathways to Diabetes in Adulthood.Childhood obesity (Print) · 2018Article
- Low Birth Weight, Cumulative Obesity Dose, and the Risk of Incident Type 2 Diabetes.Journal of diabetes research · 2018Article
- Birthweight and cardiometabolic risk patterns in multiracial children.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2018Article
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- Birth weight was longitudinally associated with cardiometabolic risk markers in mid-adulthood.Annals of epidemiology · 2016Article
- Low birth weight leads to obesity, diabetes and increased leptin levels in adults: the CoLaus study.Cardiovascular diabetology · 2016Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo assess the association of birth weight with incident type 2 diabetes, and the possible mediating influence of obesity, in a large cohort of U.S. black women. RESEARCH DESIGN AND
methodsThe Black Women's Health Study is an ongoing prospective study. We used Cox proportional hazards models to estimate incidence rate ratios (IRRs) and 95% CI for categories of birth weight (very low birth weight [<1,500 g], low birth weight [1,500-2,499 g], and high birth weight [≥4,000 g]) in reference to normal birth weight (2,500-3,999 g). Models were adjusted for age, questionnaire cycle, family history of diabetes, caloric intake, preterm birth, physical activity, years of education, and neighborhood socioeconomic status with and without inclusion of terms for adult BMI.
resultsWe followed 21,624 women over 16 years of follow-up. There were 2,388 cases of incident diabetes. Women with very low birth weight had a 40% higher risk of disease (IRR 1.40 [95% CI 1.08-1.82]) than women with normal birth weight; women with low birth weight had a 13% higher risk (IRR 1.13 [95% CI 1.02-1.25]). Adjustment for BMI did not appreciably change the estimates.
conclusionsVery low birth weight and low birth weight appear to be associated with increased risk of type 2 diabetes in African American women, and the association does not seem to be mediated through BMI. The prevalence of low birth weight is especially high in African American populations, and this may explain in part the higher occurrence of type 2 diabetes.
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