SynthesisPediatric obesity2022
Determinants of rapid infant weight gain: A pooled analysis of seven cohorts.
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- Determinants of rapid infant weight gain: A pooled analysis of seven cohorts.Pediatric obesity · 2022Pooled it
- Infant Feeding Choices during the First Post-Natal Months and Anthropometry at Age Seven Years: Follow-Up of a Randomized Clinical Trial.Nutrients · 2022Trial
- Predicting rapid weight gain in six-month-old infants: an exploratory modeling study.Pediatric research · 2026Article
- Infant social withdrawal and rapid infant weight gain.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2026Article
- Growth Recovery After Fetal Growth Restriction: A 10-Year Follow-Up of Term-Born Children.Nutrients · 2026Observational
- Maternal hypertension and telomere length are associated with weight for age Z score change from birth to 6 months of age in a predominantly Latinx cohort.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2025Article
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- Weight gain in infancy and metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) in a prospective birth cohort of Latino children.Maternal health, neonatology and perinatology · 2025Article
- Development of Machine Learning-Based Risk Prediction Models to Predict Rapid Weight Gain in Infants: Analysis of Seven Cohorts.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2025Article
- Breastfeeding Shapes the Gut Microbiota and Its Structure Is Associated with Weight Gain Trajectories in Mexican Infants.Nutrients · 2025Article
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- Exploring mitochondrial heteroplasmy in neonates: implications for growth patterns and overweight in the first years of life.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2024Article
- Breastfeeding duration and associations with prevention of accelerated growth among infants from low-income, racially and ethnically diverse backgrounds.Public health nutrition · 2023Article
- Understanding the pathways between prenatal and postnatal factors and overweight outcomes in early childhood: a pooled analysis of seven cohorts.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2023Article
- Association of Maternal BMI and Rapid Infant Weight Gain With Childhood Body Size and Composition.Pediatrics · 2023Article
- The care of infants with rapid weight gain: Should we be doing more?Journal of paediatrics and child health · 2022Article
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12 authors at 9 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
objectiveRapid weight gain (RWG) in infancy is strongly associated with subsequent obesity risk, but little is known about the factors driving RWG. This study explored the child and maternal factors associated with infant RWG.
methodsData from seven Australian and New Zealand cohorts were used (n = 4542). Infant RWG was defined as a change in weight z-score ≥0.67 from birth to age 1 year. Univariable and multivariable logistic regression assessed the association between child and maternal factors and infant RWG in each cohort. Meta-analysis was conducted to obtain pooled effect sizes.
resultsMultivariable analyses revealed boys were more likely to experience RWG (OR 1.42 95% CI 1.22, 1.66) than girls. Higher birth weight in kg (OR 0.09, 95% CI 0.04, 0.20) and gestational age in weeks (OR 0.69, 95% CI 0.48, 0.98) were associated with lower RWG risk. Children who were breastfed for ≥6 months showed lower RWG risk (OR 0.45, 95% CI 0.38, 0.53). Children of native-born versus overseas-born women appeared to have higher RWG risk (OR 1.37, 95% CI 0.99, 1.90). Maternal smoking during pregnancy increased RWG risk (OR 1.60, 95% CI 1.28, 2.01), whereas children who started solids ≥6 months (OR 0.77, 95% CI 0.63, 0.93) and children with siblings (OR 0.68, 95% CI 0.57, 0.81) showed lower RWG risk in univariable analysis, but these associations were attenuated in multivariable analysis. No association was found for maternal age, education, marital status and pre-pregnancy BMI.
conclusionMaternal country of birth, smoking status, child sex, birth weight, gestational age, infant feeding and parity were potential determinants of infant RWG.
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