ArticleNutrition & diabetes2018
Body composition during early infancy and its relation with body composition at 4 years of age in Jimma, an Ethiopian prospective cohort study.
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- Infant body composition in a randomised trial of a maternal nutritional supplement during preconception and pregnancy.World journal of pediatrics : WJP · 2025Trial
- Beyond Deterministic Fetal Programming: Intrauterine Exposures and the Multifactorial Origins of Adiposity.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2026Review
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- Body Composition of Preschool Children Born Term Versus Late-Preterm: A Follow-Up Study of Two Birth Cohorts.Indian pediatrics · 2026Article
- The effect of maternal blood glucose control on infant body composition at birth.Early human development · 2025Article
- Prevalence and Associated Factors of Overweight/Obesity Among Women in the Reproductive Age Group (15-49) in Gondar Town, Northwest Ethiopia, 2022: A Cross-Sectional Study.Health science reports · 2025Article
- Exploring Infant Size and Body Composition at 18 Months: An Ambidirectional Peri-Urban South African Cohort Study.Maternal & child nutrition · 2025Article
- Infant body composition: A comprehensive overview of assessment techniques, nutrition factors, and health outcomes.Nutrition in clinical practice : official publication of the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition · 2023Review
- Newborn body composition and child cardiovascular risk markers: a prospective multi-ethnic Asian cohort study.International journal of epidemiology · 2022Article
- Newborn weight change and predictors of underweight in the neonatal period in Guinea-Bissau, Nepal, Pakistan and Uganda.Maternal & child nutrition · 2022Article
- Birthweight z-score and fat-free mass at birth predict body composition at 3 years in Danish children born from obese mothers.Acta paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992) · 2022Observational
- 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
- Metabolic Hormone Profiles in Breast Milk From Mothers of Moderate-Late Preterm Infants Are Associated With Growth From Birth to 4 Months in a Sex-Specific Manner.Frontiers in nutrition · 2021Article
- Association Between Fat Mass in Early Life and Later Fat Mass Trajectories.JAMA pediatrics · 2020Article
- Maternal urinary concentrations of organophosphate ester metabolites: associations with gestational weight gain, early life anthropometry, and infant eating behaviors among mothers-infant pairs in Rhode Island.Environmental health : a global access science source · 2020Article
- Neonatal Adiposity and Childhood Obesity.Pediatrics · 2020Article
- Associations of fat mass and fat-free mass accretion in infancy with body composition and cardiometabolic risk markers at 5 years: The Ethiopian iABC birth cohort study.PLoS medicine · 2019Article
- Infant Growth and Long-term Cardiometabolic Health: a Review of Recent Findings.Current nutrition reports · 2019Review
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Abstract
BACKGROUND/
objectivesLow and high birth weight and rapid weight gain during infancy are associated with childhood obesity. Associations of birth and infancy body composition (BC) growth with childhood BC remain unknown in low-income countries. We aimed to investigate the associations of fat mass (FM) and fat-free mass (FFM) at birth and its accretion during early infancy with FM and FFM at the age of 4 years.
methodsIn the infant Anthropometry and Body Composition (iABC) cohort, BC was assessed at six consecutive time points from birth to 6 months and at 4 years of age by air displacement plethysmography. Multiple linear regression models were used to determine the association between FM and FFM at birth and their accretion rates during infancy and FM index (FMI) and FFM index (FFMI) at 4 years in 314 children.
resultsOne kilogram higher FFM at birth was associated with a 1.07 kg/m
conclusionsA higher FFM in early infancy predicted higher FFMI at 4 years while a higher FM accretion during early infancy predicted higher FMI at 4 years. Follow-up studies are merited to explore associations of childhood BC with cardio-metabolic risk later in life.
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