Faculty Opinions recommendation of How pre- and postnatal risk factors modify the effect of rapid weight gain in infancy and early childhood on subsequent fat mass development: results from the Multicenter Allergy Study 90.

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Macdonald
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Early Childhood ◽  
Weight Gain ◽  
Fat Mass ◽  
Rapid Weight Gain ◽  
Postnatal Risk Factors ◽  
Mass Development ◽  
Infancy And Early Childhood

Relationship between early growth and CVD risk factors in adolescents

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 132-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. G. Musa ◽  
J. Kagura ◽  
P. T. Pisa ◽  
S. A. Norris
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Cardiovascular Disease ◽  
Early Childhood ◽  
Body Composition ◽  
Weight Gain ◽  
Birth Weight ◽  
Fat Mass ◽  
Disease Risk ◽  
Relative Weight ◽  
Increased Risk

Low birth weight and a rapid weight gain in early childhood may lead to an increased risk for developing cardiovascular disease later in life, such as hypertension and dyslipidaemia. In this study, we examined the associations between size at birth, relative weight gain in infancy and childhood with specific cardiovascular disease risk factors in early adulthood. Adolescents (n=1935) from the Birth to Twenty plus (BT20+) cohort were included in the analysis. The following were treated as exposure variables: weight at birth, and relative conditional weight gain (CW), independent of height, between ages 0–24 months and 24–48 months. Outcomes were serum lipids and body composition variables at age 18 years. After adjusting for sex and other confounders, early life exposures were not associated with adolescent lipid profile. Following adjustment for sex and height (body size), birth weight [β=0.704 (0.40, 1.01)], CW 0–24 [β=1.918 (1.56, 2.28)] and CW24–48 [β=1.485 (1.14, 1.82)] accounted for 48% of the variance in fat mass. However, birth weight [β=0.773 (0.54, 1.01)], CW 0–24 [β=1.523 (1.24, 1.80)] and CW24–48 [β=1.226 (0.97, 1.49)] were also positively predicted and accounted for 71% of the variance in fat mass in adolescence (P<0.05). Our data suggests that birth weight and weight gain during infancy and early childhood independent of linear growth are related to adolescent body composition but not blood lipid profiles in an urban African population.

scholarly journals Rapid weight gain during infancy and early childhood is related to higher anthropometric measurements in preadolescence

2017 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 435-440 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Nanri ◽  
T. Shirasawa ◽  
H. Ochiai ◽  
S. Nomoto ◽  
H. Hoshino ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Weight Gain ◽  
Anthropometric Measurements ◽  
Rapid Weight Gain ◽  
Infancy And Early Childhood

scholarly journals Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Early Childhood Obesity

2018 ◽  
pp. 58-72
Author(s):  
Inyang A. Isong ◽  
Sowmya R. Rao ◽  
Marie-Abèle Bind ◽  
Mauricio Avendaño ◽  
Ichiro Kawachi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Early Childhood ◽  
Weight Gain ◽  
Childhood Obesity ◽  
Ethnic Disparities ◽  
Z Score ◽  
Z Scores ◽  
Obesity Risk Factors ◽  
Early Childhood Obesity ◽  
Infant Weight Gain

OBJECTIVES The prevalence of childhood obesity is significantly higher among racial and/or ethnic minority children in the United States. It is unclear to what extent well-established obesity risk factors in infancy and preschool explain these disparities. Our objective was to decompose racial and/or ethnic disparities in children’s weight status according to contributing socioeconomic and behavioral risk factors. METHODS We used nationally representative data from ~10 700 children in the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study Birth Cohort who were followed from age 9 months through kindergarten entry. We assessed the contribution of socioeconomic factors and maternal, infancy, and early childhood obesity risk factors to racial and/or ethnic disparities in children’s BMI z scores by using Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition analyses. RESULTS The prevalence of risk factors varied significantly by race and/or ethnicity. African American children had the highest prevalence of risk factors, whereas Asian children had the lowest prevalence. The major contributor to the BMI z score gap was the rate of infant weight gain during the first 9 months of life, which was a strong predictor of BMI z score at kindergarten entry. The rate of infant weight gain accounted for between 14.9% and 70.5% of explained disparities between white children and their racial and/or ethnic minority peers. Gaps in socioeconomic status were another important contributor that explained disparities, especially those between white and Hispanic children. Early childhood risk factors, such as fruit and vegetable consumption and television viewing, played less important roles in explaining racial and/or ethnic differences in children’s BMI z scores. CONCLUSIONS Differences in rapid infant weight gain contribute substantially to racial and/or ethnic disparities in obesity during early childhood. Interventions implemented early in life to target this risk factor could help curb widening racial and/or ethnic disparities in early childhood obesity.

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