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ArticleAndrology2025

Associations between a paternal healthy lifestyle score and its individual components with childhood overweight and obesity.

Adrien M Aubert, Alexander Douglass, Celine M Murrin, Cecily C Kelleher, Catherine M Phillips, and the Lifeways Cross‐Generation Cohort Study

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Article in Andrology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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Adrien M AubertSchool of Public Health, Physiotherapy and Sports Science, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5738-1997
Alexander DouglassSchool of Public Health, Physiotherapy and Sports Science, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0254-1217
Celine M MurrinSchool of Public Health, Physiotherapy and Sports Science, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9728-9781
Cecily C KelleherSchool of Public Health, Physiotherapy and Sports Science, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9548-4914
Catherine M PhillipsSchool of Public Health, Physiotherapy and Sports Science, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4916-4463
and the Lifeways Cross‐Generation Cohort StudySchool of Public Health, Physiotherapy and Sports Science, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
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the Irish Health Research Board reference HRC/2007/13
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundMaternal healthy lifestyle behaviors during pregnancy have been associated with reduced risk of offspring overweight and obesity (OWOB). However, there has been little investigation, in the context of the Paternal Origins of Health and Disease (POHaD) paradigm, of the potential influence of the paternal lifestyle on offspring OWOB.

objectivesTo describe paternal healthy lifestyle factors around pregnancy and investigate their associations, individually and combined, with offspring risk of OWOB during childhood. MATERIALS AND

methodsParticipants included 295 father-child pairs from the Lifeways Cross-Generation Cohort Study. A composite paternal healthy lifestyle score (HLS) based on having a high dietary quality (top 40% of the Healthy Eating Index-2015), meeting physical activity guidelines (≥450 MET-min/week of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity), having a healthy body mass index (BMI) (18.5-24.9 kg/m

resultsAt age 5 and 9 years, 23.5% and 16.9% of children were classified as living with OWOB, respectively. Of the 160 pairs with a complete HLS, 45.0% of the fathers had unfavorable lifestyle factors, determined by a low HLS between 0 and 2 points. Although a low paternal HLS was not significantly associated with a higher risk of childhood OWOB measured using either BMI z-scores and IOTF categories, it was associated with a greater child WHtR, an indicator of central adiposity, at 9 years of age (β [95% CI] = 0.04 [0.01,0.07]). DISCUSSION AND

conclusionAlmost half of the fathers had unfavorable lifestyle factors around pregnancy. A low paternal HLS was associated with a greater child WHtR at 9 years but not with a higher risk of childhood OWOB when measured by BMI z-scores or IOTF categories.

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Healthy LifestylePediatric ObesityAdultBody Mass IndexChildChild, PreschoolCohort StudiesExerciseFathersFemaleHumansMaleOverweightPregnancyRisk Factorschildhood obesityhealthy lifestyle scorepaternal lifestylePOHaD

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