ArticleObesity (Silver Spring, Md.)2022
Gestational weight change and childhood body composition trajectories from pregnancy to early adolescence.
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- Gestational weight trajectory and early offspring growth differed by gestational diabetes: a population-based cohort study.Nutrition & diabetes · 2025Article
- Infant body composition trajectories differ by in utero exposure to gestational diabetes mellitus: a prospective cohort from birth to 12 months.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2025Article
- Prenatal Weight Change Trajectories and Perinatal Outcomes among Twin Gestations.American journal of perinatology · 2024Article
- Postpartum Obesity Is Associated With Increases in Child Adiposity in Midchildhood in a Cohort of Black and Dominican Youth.Current developments in nutrition · 2024Article
- Novel approaches to examining weight changes in pregnancies affected by obesity.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2023Article
- Prenatal weight and regional body composition trajectories and neonatal body composition: The NICHD Foetal Growth Studies.Pediatric obesity · 2023Article
- BMI growth trajectory from birth to 5 years and its sex-specific association with prepregnant BMI and gestational weight gain.Frontiers in nutrition · 2023Article
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objectiveA mother-child dyad trajectory model of weight and body composition spanning from conception to adolescence was developed to understand how early life exposures shape childhood body composition.
methodsAfrican American (49.3%) and Dominican (50.7%) pregnant mothers (n = 337) were enrolled during pregnancy, and their children (47.5% female) were followed from ages 5 to 14. Gestational weight gain (GWG) was abstracted from medical records. Child weight, height, percentage body fat, and waist circumference were measured. GWG and child body composition trajectories were jointly modeled with a flexible latent class model with a class membership component that included prepregnancy BMI.
resultsFour prenatal and child body composition trajectory patterns were identified, and sex-specific patterns were observed for the joint GWG-postnatal body composition trajectories with more distinct patterns among girls but not boys. Girls of mothers with high GWG across gestation had the highest BMI z score, waist circumference, and percentage body fat trajectories from ages 5 to 14; however, boys in this high GWG group did not show similar growth patterns.
conclusionsJointly modeled prenatal weight and child body composition trajectories showed sex-specific patterns. Growth patterns from childhood though early adolescence appeared to be more profoundly affected by higher GWG patterns in females, suggesting sex differences in developmental programming.
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