ArticleAmerican journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology Council2016
Disentangling the associations between parental BMI and offspring body composition using the four-component model.
Article in American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology Council, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04036331 (Effectiveness/Feasibility of A Coordinated Parent/Child Dyad Weight Loss Intervention), which is not on this map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Maternal BMI at the start of pregnancy and offspring epigenome-wide DNA methylation: findings from the pregnancy and childhood epigenetics (PACE) consortium.Human molecular genetics · 2017Pooled it
- Parental body mass index and its association with body composition, physical fitness and lifestyle factors in their 4-year-old children: results from the MINISTOP trial.European journal of clinical nutrition · 2017Trial
- Beyond Deterministic Fetal Programming: Intrauterine Exposures and the Multifactorial Origins of Adiposity.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2026Review
- Early Life Factors Associated with Lean Body Mass in Spanish Children: CALINA Study.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Parental adiposity differentially associates with newborn body composition.Pediatric obesity · 2020Article
- Parental body mass index and blood pressure are associated with higher body mass index and blood pressure in their adult offspring: a cross-sectional study in a resource-limited setting in northern Peru.Tropical medicine & international health : TM & IH · 2018Article
- A Comparative Analysis of Rural versus Urban Preschool Children's Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Consumption, Body Mass Index and Parent's Weight Status.SAGE open nursingArticle
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objectivesThis study sets out to investigate the intergenerational associations between the body mass index (BMI) of parents and the body composition of their offspring.
methodsThe cross-sectional data were analyzed for 511 parent-offspring trios from London and south-east England. The offspring were aged 5-21 years. Parental BMI was obtained by recall and offspring fat mass and lean mass were obtained using the four-component model. Multivariable regression analysis, with multiple imputation for missing paternal values was used. Sensitivity analyses for levels of non-paternity were conducted.
resultsA positive association was seen between parental BMI and offspring BMI, fat mass index (FMI), and lean mass index (LMI). The mother's BMI was positively associated with the BMI, FMI, and LMI z-scores of both daughters and sons and of a similar magnitude for both sexes. The father's BMI showed similar associations to the mother's BMI, with his son's BMI, FMI, and LMI z-scores, but no association with his daughter. Sensitivity tests for non-paternity showed that maternal coefficients remained greater than paternal coefficients throughout but there was no statistical difference at greater levels of non-paternity.
conclusionsWe found variable associations between parental BMI and offspring body composition. Associations were generally stronger for maternal than paternal BMI, and paternal associations appeared to differ between sons and daughters. In this cohort, the mother's BMI was statistically significantly associated with her child's body composition but the father's BMI was only associated with the body composition of his sons. Am. J. Hum. Biol. 28:524-533, 2016. © 2016 The Authors American Journal of Human Biology Published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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