ArticleBMC pediatrics2019
Prepregnancy obesity is associated with cognitive outcomes in boys in a low-income, multiethnic birth cohort.
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- Maternal Obesity and Neurodevelopment of the Offspring.Nutrients · 2025Review
- Pre-pregnancy body mass index and offspring neurobehavioral development: a birth cohort study.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Article
- Association of anthropometric parameters with intelligence quotient in early school-aged children: a cross-sectional study in Iran.BMC pediatrics · 2024Article
- Analyzing Active Compounds inFoods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Associations of maternal pre-pregnancy body mass index and gestational weight gain with risk of offspring neurodevelopment at 2 years: A Chinese birth cohort study.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2023Article
- Maternal Pre-Pregnancy Body Mass Index, Gestational Weight Gain and Children's Cognitive Development: A Birth Cohort Study.Nutrients · 2022Article
- Gestational Weight Gain and Birth Outcome: A Comparison of Methods of Accounting for Gestational Age.American journal of epidemiology · 2022Article
- The impact of maternal obesity on childhood neurodevelopment.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2021Review
- Poor maternal nutritional status before and during pregnancy is associated with suspected child developmental delay in 2-year old Brazilian children.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Pre-pregnancy body mass index and parent and teacher-reported behavioral outcomes among offspring in childhood.Neurotoxicology and teratologyArticle
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Abstract
backgroundMaternal obesity and high gestational weight gain (GWG) disproportionally affect low-income populations and may be associated with child neurodevelopment in a sex-specific manner. We examined sex-specific associations between prepregnancy BMI, GWG, and child neurodevelopment at age 7.
methodsData are from a prospective low-income cohort of African American and Dominican women (n = 368; 44.8% male offspring) enrolled during the second half of pregnancy from 1998 to 2006. Neurodevelopment was measured using the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC-IV) at approximately child age 7. Linear regression estimated associations between prepregnancy BMI, GWG, and child outcomes, adjusting for race/ethnicity, marital status, gestational age at delivery, maternal education, maternal IQ and child age.
resultsOverweight affected 23.9% of mothers and obesity affected 22.6%. At age 7, full-scale IQ was higher among girls (99.7 ± 11.6) compared to boys (96.9 ± 13.3). Among boys, but not girls, prepregnancy overweight and obesity were associated with lower full-scale IQ scores [overweight β: - 7.1, 95% CI: (- 12.1, - 2.0); obesity β: - 5.7, 95% CI: (- 10.7, - 0.7)]. GWG was not associated with full-scale IQ in either sex.
conclusionsPrepregnancy overweight and obesity were associated with lower IQ among boys, but not girls, at 7 years. These findings are important considering overweight and obesity prevalence and the long-term implications of early cognitive development.
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