ArticleKorean journal of pediatrics2019
The maternal prepregnancy body mass index and the risk of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder among children and adolescents: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
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- Maternal acute and chronic inflammation in pregnancy is associated with common neurodevelopmental disorders: a systematic review.Translational psychiatry · 2021Pooled it
- Maternal pre-pregnancy overweight/obesity and the risk of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in offspring: a systematic review, meta-analysis and quasi-experimental family-based study.International journal of epidemiology · 2020Pooled it
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- Maternal Pregnancy and Pre-Pregnancy Weight and Behavioural Outcomes in Children.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Maternal pre-pregnancy BMI and offspring hyperactivity-inattention trajectories from 3 to 8 years in the EDEN birth cohort study.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2023Article
- Intra-amniotic inflammation in the mid-trimester of pregnancy is a risk factor for neuropsychological disorders in childhood.Journal of perinatal medicine · 2023Article
- Association between previous abortion history and risk of autism spectrum disorders among offspring: a meta-analysis.Clinical and experimental pediatrics · 2023Article
- Association of maternal polygenic risk scores for mental illness with perinatal risk factors for offspring mental illness.Science advances · 2022Article
- Maternal pre-pregnancy obesity and offspring hyperactivity-inattention symptoms at 5 years in preterm and term children: a multi-cohort analysis.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Association between polycystic ovary syndrome and risk of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in offspring: a meta-analysis.Clinical and experimental pediatrics · 2022Article
- Maternal obesity and the impact of associated early-life inflammation on long-term health of offspring.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2022Review
- Maternal immune activation and neuroinflammation in human neurodevelopmental disorders.Nature reviews. Neurology · 2021Review
- The World Federation of ADHD International Consensus Statement: 208 Evidence-based conclusions about the disorder.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2021Review
- Is there an association between labor induction and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder among children?Clinical and experimental pediatrics · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundAttention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms have a major impact on individuals, families, and society. Therefore identification risk factors of ADHD are a public health priority. PURPOSE: This is meta-analysis evaluated the association between maternal prepregnancy body mass index and the risk of ADHD among the resulting offspring.
methodsThe search identified studies published through December 2018 in the PubMed, Web of Science, and Scopus databases. The odds ratios (ORs) or hazard ratios (HRs) with 95% confidence intervals (CI) extracted from eligible studies were used as the common measure of association among studies.
resultsA significant association was found between overweight women and the risk of ADHD among children with the pooled HR and OR estimates (HR, 1.27 and 95% CI, 1.17-1.37; OR, 1.28 and 95% CI, 1.15-1.40, respectively). This association was significant between obese women and the risk of ADHD among children and adolescents with the pooled estimates of HR and OR (HR, 1.65 and 95% CI, 1.55-1.76; OR, 1.42 and 95% CI, 1.23-1.61).
conclusionThe current epidemiological studies present sufficient evidence that prepregnancy overweight and obesity are significantly associated with an increased risk of ADHD among children and adolescents. These findings provide a new approach to preventing ADHD by controlling weight gain in the prenatal period, which should be considered by policymakers.
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