ArticlePediatric obesity2017
Longitudinal fat mass and visceral fat during the first 6 months after birth in healthy infants: support for a critical window for adiposity in early life.
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- Fat mass and fat-free mass track from infancy to childhood: New insights in body composition programming in early life.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2021Article
- Appetite-regulating hormone trajectories and relationships with fat mass development in term-born infants during the first 6 months of life.European journal of nutrition · 2021Article
- Early weight gain trajectories and body composition in infancy in infants born very preterm.Pediatric obesity · 2021Article
- Longitudinal telomere length and body composition in healthy term-born infants during the first two years of life.PloS one · 2021Article
- Association Between Fat Mass in Early Life and Later Fat Mass Trajectories.JAMA pediatrics · 2020Article
- Longitudinal body composition assessment in healthy term-born infants until 2 years of age using ADP and DXA with vacuum cushion.European journal of clinical nutrition · 2020Article
- Which infancy growth parameters are associated with later adiposity? The Cambridge Baby Growth Study.Annals of human biology · 2020Article
- Maternal obesity and gestational diabetes mellitus affect body composition through infancy: the PONCH study.Pediatric research · 2019Article
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- Impact of Early Infant Growth, Duration of Breastfeeding and Maternal Factors on Total Body Fat Mass and Visceral Fat at 3 and 6 Months of Age.Annals of nutrition & metabolism · 2017Article
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Abstract
introductionBody composition in early life influences the development of obesity during childhood and beyond. It is, therefore, important to adequately determine longitudinal body composition during the first months of life. PATIENTS AND
methodsIn 203 healthy term infants, we investigated longitudinal body composition, including fat mass percentage (FM%) and fat-free mass (FFM), by air-displacement plethysmography, at 1, 3 and 6 months of age and abdominal visceral fat and abdominal subcutaneous fat, by ultrasound, at 3 and 6 months.
resultsWe found a significant increase in FM% between 1 and 3 months but not between 3 and 6 months (p < 0.001, p = 0.098, respectively). Girls had higher FM% than boys at 1 and 6 months (p = 0.05, p < 0.001 respectively) and less FFM than boys at 1, 3 and 6 months (p = 0.02, p = 0.02, p < 0.001, respectively). There was a large variation in FM% at all ages even between infants with similar weight standard deviation scores. Visceral fat and abdominal subcutaneous fat did not change between 3 and 6 months. FM% was highly correlated with abdominal subcutaneous fat but not with visceral fat.
conclusionChanges in FM% occur mainly in the first 3 months of life, and FM%, visceral and abdominal subcutaneous fat do not change between 3 and 6 months, supporting the concept of a critical window for adiposity development in the first three months of life. In addition, our study provides longitudinal reference data of FM%, FFM, visceral fat and abdominal subcutaneous fat during the first 6 months of life.
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