Trial reportPloS one2019
Influence of post-partum BMI change on childhood obesity and energy intake.
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- Pooled it
- Associations of Maternal Postpartum Weight Retention and Its Components With Child BMIChildhood obesity (Print) · 2026Article
- Prenatal and postnatal maternal obesity and their associations with child nutrition and weight outcomes: A systematic review.Reviews in endocrine & metabolic disorders · 2026Review
- Management of Childhood Obesity.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Review
- Body Composition Changes and Associations in Infants and Mothers During the First Year: Insights from a Pilot Study of the Baby-bod Project.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
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- Weight gain trajectories patterns from pregnancy to early postpartum: identifying women at risk and timing to prevent weight regain.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2022Article
- Desafíos de medición para la investigación de la obesidad infantil en y entre América Latina y Estados Unidos.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2021Article
- Measurement challenges for childhood obesity research within and between Latin America and the United States.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2021Article
- Prenatal lead exposure: associations with growth and anthropometry in early childhood in a UK observational birth cohort study.Wellcome open research · 2020Article
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Abstract
introductionAssociation between parent's Body Mass Index (BMI) and their children, has been widely documented. Individual, familiar and structural factors play a role in this relation. We analyzed the association between maternal BMI change during the first year post-partum and their offspring's growth-trajectories and energy intake in their first five years of life.
objectiveCompare growth-trajectories and children's caloric intake according to post-partum mother´s BMI classification.
methodsThe anthropometric assessment was taken in 935 mother-child pairs along the study period. Mothers were classified into four groups according to their BMI-trajectories in the post-partum. Children's weight for height z-scores (WHZ) was compared among groups using random-effects regression models. A longitudinal comparison of children's caloric intake by the maternal group was carried out.
resultsAt 42 months of age, infants from mothers that remained overweight during the first year post-partum had, on average, 0.61 SD higher WHZ than those from mothers who remained in a recommended BMI group (R-BMI) in the same period. At 60 months of age, children´s prevalence of obesity was almost twice in the maternal overweight group vs R-BMI group (14.2% and 7.3% respectively). Chances for a child of having an over caloric intake were 36.5% (95% IC: 6.6%, 74.8%) and significantly higher among children from overweight mothers than those from R-BMI mothers. The difference in children's WHZ trajectory remained significant after adjusting for caloric intake, suggesting that contextual factors play a role in shaping children's obesity. A concurrent ethnographic study with the study subjects provides suggestions as to what these factors might be, including changes in the food landscape.
conclusionChildren from overweight mothers tended to have a more caloric diet yielding a higher propensity to obesity. Contextual factors such as food landscape might contribute to childhood obesity beyond having an overweight mother. Pregnancy and post-partum is a window of opportunity for interventions to decrease the incidence of children's overweight.
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