ArticleArchives of disease in childhood2018
Racial differences in crossing major growth percentiles in infancy.
Article in Archives of disease in childhood, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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- Maternal hypertension and telomere length are associated with weight for age Z score change from birth to 6 months of age in a predominantly Latinx cohort.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2025Article
- The care of infants with rapid weight gain: Should we be doing more?Journal of paediatrics and child health · 2022Article
- Impact of early rapid weight gain on odds for overweight at one year differs between breastfed and formula-fed infants.Pediatric obesity · 2020Article
- Relation between changes in weight parameters and height parameters in prepubertal children: daily weight gain and BMIi changes in relation to linear growth during nutritional rehabilitation of underweight children.Acta bio-medica : Atenei Parmensis · 2019Article
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- Racial Disparities in Obesity Treatment.Current obesity reports · 2018Review
- Differences in early risk factors for obesity between African American formula-fed infants and White breastfed controls.Pilot and feasibility studies · 2017Article
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Abstract
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aimsWe examined associations of ever crossing upwards ≥2 (vs <2) major weight-for-length (WFL) percentiles in the first 24 months with obesity at 5 years among white and black children.
methodsWe included 10 979 white and 1245 black children from the Linked CENTURY Study with percentile crossing data in all four 6-month periods in the first 24 months and obesity (age-specific and sex-specific body mass index ≥95th percentile) at 5 years. We used adjusted logistic regression models and stratified by race.
results64% of children crossed upwards ≥2 major WFL percentiles in the first 2 years. Among white children, 12% were obese vs 7% for <2 crossings, while among black children the frequencies were 23% vs 9%. Black children (adjusted OR 2.94, 2.04 to 4.23) who had ever crossed upwards ≥2 major WFL percentiles had a higher odds of obesity at age 5 than white children (adjusted OR 1.89, 1.64 to 2.18) (interaction p=0.02).
conclusionsOur results suggest that rapid weight gain in infancy is more deleterious among black than white children for later obesity.
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