ArticleThe American journal of clinical nutrition2021
Longitudinal associations of fruit juice intake in infancy with DXA-measured abdominal adiposity in mid-childhood and early adolescence.
Article in The American journal of clinical nutrition, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT02820402 (Project Viva), which is not on this map. Cited by 10 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Project Viva: a Longitudinal Study of Health for the Next Generation
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10 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 17 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Association of cow's milk intake in early childhood with adiposity and cardiometabolic risk in early adolescence.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2022Trial
- Infant feeding practices of Indian immigrant mothers and their association with sociodemographic factors: An Australia-wide cross-sectional survey.International breastfeeding journal · 2026Article
- Monosodium glutamate: A hidden risk factor for obesity?Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2025Review
- Cohort Profile Update: Project Viva Offspring.International journal of epidemiology · 2024Article
- Associations of infant feeding practices with abdominal and hepatic fat measures in childhood in the longitudinal Healthy Start Study.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2024Article
- The 7-day Beverage Intake Questionnaire for Latino Children: Validation of a Culturally Tailored Tool.Journal of nutrition education and behavior · 2023Article
- Developmental Contributions to Obesity: Nutritional Exposures in the First Thousand Days.Gastroenterology clinics of North America · 2023Review
- Lifestyle Risk Factors for Overweight/Obesity in Spanish Children.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- A growth area: A review of the value of clinical studies of child growth for palaeopathology.Evolution, medicine, and public health · 2022Review
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Abstract
backgroundExcessive abdominal adiposity is associated with health risks in children and adults. Higher consumption of fruit juice and other sources of fructose has been shown to promote weight gain and specifically visceral adiposity in adulthood.
objectivesWe aimed to examine the longitudinal associations of fruit juice intake in infancy with visceral adiposity in mid-childhood and early adolescence.
methodsWe analyzed data from 783 participants in Project Viva, a US prebirth cohort. Our exposure was fruit juice intake at 1 y old. We measured visceral adipose tissue (VAT), subcutaneous abdominal adipose tissue (SAAT), and total abdominal adipose tissue (TAAT) in mid-childhood (mean age 7.8 ± 0.7 y) and early adolescence (13 ± 0.8 y) using DXA. We examined longitudinal associations of fruit juice intake at 1 y with VAT, SAAT, and TAAT area sex-specific standard deviation scores (SDSs) in mid-childhood and early adolescence using linear mixed models. We adjusted for child age at outcome, sex, race/ethnicity, age and BMI z-score at 1 y-questionnaire, maternal prepregnancy BMI, level of education, and prenatal sugar-sweetened beverage intake, paternal BMI, and median household income at birth.
resultsAfter adjusting for child and parental covariates, each serving (120 mL) per day of fruit juice intake at 1 y was associated with persistently greater VAT area SDS (β = 0.08; 95% CI: 0.03, 0.13) at both timepoints in boys and girls. The association of fruit juice intake with VAT appeared stronger than that with SAAT (β = 0.05; 95% CI: 0.00, 0.09) and TAAT (β = 0.05; 95% CI: 0.01, 0.10).
conclusionsHigher fruit juice intake in infancy was associated with greater abdominal adiposity, particularly VAT, in mid-childhood and early adolescence. Our findings support limiting fruit juice intake in infancy, which can have later impact on visceral adiposity in childhood and adolescence.Clinical Trial Registry number: NCT02820402 (https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02820402).
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