ArticleInternational journal of public health2018
Early life risk factors and their cumulative effects as predictors of overweight in Spanish children.
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- Influence of Adipose Tissue on Early Metabolic Programming: Conditioning Factors and Early Screening.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Ten-Year Differences in Nutritional Status and Obesity-Related Risk Factors in Polish Preschool Children.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Maternal Early-Life Risk Factors and Later Gestational Diabetes Mellitus: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of the UAE Healthy Future Study (UAEHFS).International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Early Risk Factors for Obesity in the First 1000 Days-Relationship with Body Fat and BMI at 2 Years.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Social vulnerabilities as risk factor of childhood obesity development and their role in prevention programs.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2021Review
- Effectiveness of a Multifactorial Intervention in the First 1000 Days of Life to Prevent Obesity and Overweight in Childhood: Study Protocol.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Over-expression of miR-34c leads to early-life visceral fat accumulation and insulin resistance.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- From conception to infancy - early risk factors for childhood obesity.Nature reviews. Endocrinology · 2019Review
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Abstract
objectivesTo explore early life risk factors of overweight/obesity at age 6 years and their cumulative effects on overweight/obesity at ages 2, 4 and 6 years.
methodsAltogether 1031 Spanish children were evaluated at birth and during a 6-year follow-up. Early life risk factors included: parental overweight/obesity, parental origin/ethnicity, maternal smoking during pregnancy, gestational weight gain, gestational age, birth weight, caesarean section, breastfeeding practices and rapid infant weight gain collected via hospital records. Cumulative effects were assessed by adding up those early risk factors that significantly increased the risk of overweight/obesity. We conducted binary logistic regression models.
resultsRapid infant weight gain (OR 2.29, 99% CI 1.54-3.42), maternal overweight/obesity (OR 1.93, 99% CI 1.27-2.92), paternal overweight/obesity (OR 2.17, 99% CI 1.44-3.28), Latin American/Roma origin (OR 3.20, 99% CI 1.60-6.39) and smoking during pregnancy (OR 1.61, 99% CI 1.01-2.59) remained significant after adjusting for confounders. A higher number of early life risk factors accumulated was associated with overweight/obesity at age 6 years but not at age 2 and 4 years.
conclusionsRapid infant weight gain, parental overweight/obesity, maternal smoking and origin/ethnicity predict childhood overweight/obesity and present cumulative effects. Monitoring children with rapid weight gain and supporting a healthy parental weight are important for childhood obesity prevention.
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