SynthesisAnnals of epidemiology2017
Does the association between early life growth and later obesity differ by race/ethnicity or socioeconomic status? A systematic review.
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26 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 67 citations in OpenAlex.
- Pooled it
- Cord blood epigenome-wide meta-analysis in six European-based child cohorts identifies signatures linked to rapid weight growth.BMC medicine · 2023Pooled it
- The Effect of Growth Rate during Infancy on the Risk of Developing Obesity in Childhood: A Systematic Literature Review.Nutrients · 2021Pooled it
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- The causal relationship between family economic, cultural, and social capital and child health in urban and rural China.BMC public health · 2026Article
- 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
- Socioeconomic Status and Obesity.Journal of the Endocrine Society · 2024Review
- Burden of diseases attributable to excess body weight in the Middle East and North Africa region, 1990-2019.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Association of Maternal BMI and Rapid Infant Weight Gain With Childhood Body Size and Composition.Pediatrics · 2023Article
- National, longitudinal NASCITA birth cohort study to investigate the health of Italian children and potential influencing factors.BMJ open · 2022Observational
- Early childhood growth trajectories in a Medicaid population.Pediatric obesity · 2022Article
- Associations between KCNQ1 and ITIH4 gene polymorphisms and infant weight gain in early life.Pediatric research · 2022Article
- Critical examination of relationships between early growth and childhood overweight in extremely preterm infants.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2021Article
- Overweight and obesity by school socioeconomic composition and adolescent socioeconomic status: a school-based study.BMC public health · 2021Article
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- Off the Charts: Identifying and Visualizing Body Mass Index Trajectories of Rural, Poor Youth.The Journal of pediatrics · 2021Article
- National and regional trends in the prevalence of polycystic ovary syndrome since 1990 within Europe: the modeled estimates from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016.Archives of medical science : AMS · 2021Article
- Socioeconomic Status and Childhood Obesity: a Review of Literature from the Past Decade to Inform Intervention Research.Current obesity reports · 2020Review
- Intergenerational transmission of the effects of maternal exposure to childhood maltreatment on offspring obesity risk: A fetal programming perspective.Psychoneuroendocrinology · 2020Review
- Weight development between age 5 and 10 years and its associations with dietary patterns at age 5 in the ABCD cohort.BMC public health · 2020Article
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Abstract
purposeRapid growth during infancy predicts higher risk of obesity later in childhood. The association between patterns of early life growth and later obesity may differ by race/ethnicity or socioeconomic status (SES), but prior evidence syntheses do not consider vulnerable subpopulations.
methodsWe systemically reviewed published studies that explored patterns of early life growth (0-24 months of age) as predictors of later obesity (>24 months) that were either conducted in racial/ethnic minority or low-SES study populations or assessed effect modification of this association by race/ethnicity or SES. Literature searches were conducted in PubMed and SocINDEX.
resultsTen studies met the inclusion criteria. Faster growth during the first 2 years of life was consistently associated with later obesity irrespective of definition and timing of exposure and outcome measures. Associations were strongest in populations composed of greater proportions of racial/ethnic minority and/or low-SES children. For example, ORs ranged from 1.17 (95% CI: 1.11, 1.24) in a heterogeneous population to 9.24 (95% CI: 3.73, 22.9) in an entirely low-SES nonwhite population.
conclusionsThe impact of rapid growth in infancy on later obesity may differ by social stratification factors such as race/ethnicity and family income. More robust and inclusive studies examining these associations are needed.
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