ArticlePediatric obesity2018
Pathways into and out of overweight and obesity from infancy to mid-childhood.
Article in Pediatric obesity, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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- Identifying Prenatal and Postnatal Determinants of Infant Growth: A Structural Equation Modelling Based Cohort Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- World Health Organization growth standards: How do Canadian children measure up?Paediatrics & child health · 2021Article
- Evaluating routine pediatric growth measurement as a screening tool for overweight and obese status.Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien · 2021Article
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- Tracking of obesity among 2- to 9-year-olds in an electronic heath record database from 2006 to 2018.Obesity science & practice · 2020Article
- Which infancy growth parameters are associated with later adiposity? The Cambridge Baby Growth Study.Annals of human biology · 2020Article
- Height Trajectory During Early Childhood Is Inversely Associated with Fat Mass in Later Childhood in Mexican Boys.The Journal of nutrition · 2019Article
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- Pathways into and out of overweight and obesity from infancy to mid-childhood.Pediatric obesity · 2018Article
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Abstract
objectivesTo investigate whether high weight in infancy predicts obesity in childhood.
methodData from two UK cohorts (Newcastle Growth and Development N = 795, Gateshead Millennium N = 393) and one Finnish (Tampere N = 1262) were combined. Z scores of weight at 3 and 12 months and body mass index (BMI) at 5 and 8 years were categorized as raised/overweight (1 to <2 SD) or high/obese (≥2 SD).
resultsThe majority of infants with raised or high weight at birth tended to revert to normal by 3 months and to track in the same category from 3 to 12 months. Although infants with high weight were five times more likely to have BMI ≥ 2 SD at 8 years (p < 0.001), only 22% went on to have BMI ≥ 2 SD, while 64% of infants with raised weight had normal BMI at 8 years. Of children with BMI ≥ 2 SD aged 8 years, only 22% had raised weight in infancy and half had BMI ≥ 2 SD for the first time at that age.
conclusionsInfants with raised weight in infancy tend to remain so, but most children who go on to have BMI ≥ 2 SD were not unusually heavy infants and the majority of infants with high weight reverted to overweight or normal weight in childhood.
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