ArticleClinical obesity2025
Impact of maternal body mass index (BMI) and gestational weight gain on offspring's weight and BMI z-scores across the first 8 years of life.
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- The mediating effects of home environment on the relationship between maternal BMI and childhood obesity: Findings from the ECHO-wide cohort.European journal of pediatrics · 2026Article
- Maternal Parenting Strategies and Daughters' Perceived Weight Teasing as Predictors of Restrictive Eating Behaviors.Nutrients · 2026Article
- Caregiver Feeding Practices and Late-Preschool BMI-for-Age z-Score Trajectories Among WIC-Enrolled Children: A National Longitudinal Study.Nutrients · 2026Article
- Vitamin D status and gestational weight gain: A narrative review of maternal and fetal metabolic risk.Women's health (London, England)Review
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While prior studies have linked maternal pre-pregnancy body mass index (BMI) and gestational weight gain (GWG) to birth weight and early childhood obesity, fewer have examined their joint effect on longitudinal growth trajectories, particularly standardized BMI z-scores through school age. We aimed to examine the relationship between maternal pre-pregnancy BMI, GWG and the trajectory of offspring's early-life weight, BMI z-scores and weight percentiles from birth to age 8. Linear mixed models were employed to assess the association between maternal pre-pregnancy BMI, GWG and children's standardized weight-for-age, BMI and length/height-for-age, adjusting for potential confounders. Data were analysed from 806 mother-child pairs from the Vitamin D Antenatal Asthma Reduction Trial, with children followed longitudinally from birth through 8 years of age. Our study demonstrated a significant association between maternal pre-pregnancy BMI and offspring weight-for-age and BMI z-score trajectories (β = .03, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.02-0.04 for both; p < .001, respectively). Specifically, children born to mothers with pre-pregnancy BMI of 25-30 kg/m
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