ReviewGlobal health, epidemiology and genomics2018
Association between early life antibiotic use and childhood overweight and obesity: a narrative review.
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- Perceptions and reported practices of pregnant women and mothers of children under two years of age regarding antibiotic use and resistance in Vientiane province, Lao PDR: a qualitative study.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2022Article
- Pre-operative stenting and complications following pancreatoduodenectomy for pancreatic cancer: an analysis of the ACS-NSQIP registry.Surgical endoscopy · 2021Article
- Overuse of antibiotics in maternity and neonatal wards, a descriptive report from public hospitals in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.Antimicrobial resistance and infection control · 2021Article
- Intrapartum Antibiotic Exposure and Body Mass Index in Children.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2021Article
- Antibiotic use in early childhood and risk of obesity: longitudinal analysis of a national cohort.World journal of pediatrics : WJP · 2019Article
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Abstract
backgroundRecent research implicates antibiotic use as a potential contributor to child obesity risk. In this narrative review, we examine current observational evidence on the relation between antibiotic use in early childhood and subsequent measures of child body mass.
methodsWe searched PubMed, Web of Science and the Cochrane Library to identify studies that assessed antibiotic exposure before 3 years of age and subsequent measures of body mass or risk of overweight or obesity in childhood.
resultsWe identified 13 studies published before October 2017, based on a total of 6 81 332 individuals, which examined the relation between early life antibiotic exposure and measures of child body mass. Most studies did not appropriately account for confounding by indication for antibiotic use. Overall, we found no consistent and conclusive evidence of associations between early life antibiotic use and later child body mass [minimum overall adjusted odds ratio (aOR) reported: 1.01, 95% confidence interval (95% CI) 0.98-1.04,
conclusionsEvidence to date is insufficient to indicate that antibiotic use is an important risk factor for child obesity, or leads to clinically important differences in weight. Further comparable studies using routine clinical data may help clarify this association.
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