Associations Between Gestational Weight Gain, Gestational Diabetes, and Childhood Obesity Incidence

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INTRODUCTION: Excessive maternal gestational weight gain (GWG) is strongly correlated with childhood obesity, yet how excess maternal weight gain and gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) interact to affect early childhood obesity is poorly understood. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether overall and trimester-specific maternal GWG and GDM were associated with obesity in offspring by age 6 years.

METHODS: A cohort of 10,335 maternal-child dyads was established from electronic health records. Maternal weights at conception and delivery were estimated from weight trajectory fits using functional principal components analysis. Kaplan-Meier curves and Cox regression, together with generalized raking, examined time-to-childhood-obesity.

RESULTS: Obesity diagnosed prior to age 6 years was estimated at 19.7% (95% CI: 18.3, 21.1). Maternal weight gain during pregnancy was a strong predictor of early childhood obesity (p < 0.0001). The occurrence of early childhood obesity was lower among mothers with GDM compared with those without diabetes (adjusted hazard ratio = 0.58, p = 0.014). There was no interaction between maternal weight gain and GDM (p = 0.55). Higher weight gain during the first trimester was associated with lower risk of early childhood obesity (p = 0.0002) whereas higher weight gain during the second and third trimesters was associated with higher risk (p < 0.0001).

DISCUSSION: Results indicated total and trimester-specific maternal weight gain was a strong predictor of early childhood obesity, though obesity risk by age 6 was lower for children of mothers with GDM. Additional research is needed to elucidate underlying mechanisms directly related to trimester-specific weight gain and GDM that impede or protect against obesity prevalence during early childhood.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:28

Enthalten in:

Maternal and child health journal - 28(2024), 2 vom: 14. Feb., Seite 372-381

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Sneed, Nadia M [VerfasserIn]
Heerman, William J [VerfasserIn]
Shaw, Pamela A [VerfasserIn]
Han, Kyunghee [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Tong [VerfasserIn]
Bian, Aihua [VerfasserIn]
Pugh, Shannon [VerfasserIn]
Duda, Stephany [VerfasserIn]
Lumley, Thomas [VerfasserIn]
Shepherd, Bryan E [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Childhood obesity
Gestational diabetes mellitus
Gestational weight gain
Journal Article
Pregnancy

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Date Completed 29.02.2024

Date Revised 09.03.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1007/s10995-023-03853-8

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM364581506