Gestational weight change and childhood body composition trajectories from pregnancy to early adolescence

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OBJECTIVE: A 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.

METHODS: African 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.

RESULTS: Four 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.

CONCLUSIONS: Jointly 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.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:30

Enthalten in:

Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) - 30(2022), 3 vom: 07. März, Seite 707-717

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Widen, Elizabeth M [VerfasserIn]
Burns, Natalie [VerfasserIn]
Daniels, Michael [VerfasserIn]
Backlund, Grant [VerfasserIn]
Rickman, Rachel [VerfasserIn]
Foster, Saralyn [VerfasserIn]
Nichols, Amy R [VerfasserIn]
Hoepner, Lori A [VerfasserIn]
Kinsey, Eliza W [VerfasserIn]
Ramirez-Carvey, Judyth [VerfasserIn]
Hassoun, Abeer [VerfasserIn]
Perera, Frederica P [VerfasserIn]
Bukowski, Radek [VerfasserIn]
Rundle, Andrew G [VerfasserIn]

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Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

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Date Completed 14.04.2022

Date Revised 02.03.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1002/oby.23367

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM336698992