ArticleMaternal & child nutrition2016
Gestational weight gain and obesity, adiposity and body size in African-American and Dominican children in the Bronx and Northern Manhattan.
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- Postpartum Obesity Is Associated With Increases in Child Adiposity in Midchildhood in a Cohort of Black and Dominican Youth.Current developments in nutrition · 2024Article
- Cohort Profile: The Mothers and Newborns (MN) Cohort of the Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health.International journal of epidemiology · 2024Article
- Prenatal weight and regional body composition trajectories and neonatal body composition: The NICHD Foetal Growth Studies.Pediatric obesity · 2023Article
- Gestational weight change and childhood body composition trajectories from pregnancy to early adolescence.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2022Article
- Inverse probability weighting to handle attrition in cohort studies: some guidance and a call for caution.BMC medical research methodology · 2022Article
- Neighborhood walkability and poverty predict excessive gestational weight gain: A cross-sectional study in New York City.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2022Article
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- Exploring the role of genetic confounding in the association between maternal and offspring body mass index: evidence from three birth cohorts.International journal of epidemiology · 2020Article
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- Maternal excess gestational weight gain and infant waist circumference: a 2-y observational study.Pediatric research · 2017Observational
- Bisphenol A and Adiposity in an Inner-City Birth Cohort.Environmental health perspectives · 2016Article
- Gestational weight gain and obesity, adiposity and body size in African-American and Dominican children in the Bronx and Northern Manhattan.Maternal & child nutrition · 2016Article
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Abstract
Gestational weight gain (GWG) is potentially modifiable and is associated with infant size and body composition; however, long-term effects on childhood obesity have not been reported among multi-ethnic urban populations. We examined the association between GWG and child anthropometric measures and body composition at 7 years [waist circumference (WC), body mass index z-score (BMIZ), obesity (BMIZ ≥95%ile) and bioelectrical impedance analysis estimates of percentage body fat (%fat)] in African-American and Dominican dyads (n = 323) in the Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health prospective birth cohort study from 1998 to 2013. Linear and logistic regression evaluated associations between excessive GWG [>Institute of Medicine (IOM) 2009 guidelines] and outcomes, adjusting for pre-pregnancy BMI and covariates. Pre-pregnancy BMI (mean ± standard deviation, all such values) and total GWG were 25.8 ± 6.2 kg m(-2) (45% overweight/obese) and 16.4 ± 7.9 kg (64% > IOM guidelines), respectively. Excessive GWG was associated with higher BMIZ {0.44 [95% confidence interval (CI): 0.2, 0.7], P < 0.001}, WC [β: 2.9 cm (95% CI: 1.1, 4.6), P = 0.002], %fat at 7 years [β: 2.2% (95% CI: 1.0, 3.5), P = 0.001)] and obesity [odds ratio: 2.93 (95% CI: 1.5, 5.8), P = 0.002]. Pre-pregnancy BMI was positively associated with child size, adiposity and obesity (all P < 0.05). Excessive GWG was highly prevalent and was associated with child obesity, greater percentage body fat and abdominal adiposity. Strategies to support healthy GWG are warranted to promote healthy growth and prevent childhood obesity.
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