Growth patterns in childhood and adolescence and adult body composition: a pooled analysis of birth cohort studies from five low and middle-income countries (COHORTS collaboration).

ABSTRACT:

Objective

We examined associations among serial measures of linear growth and relative weight with adult body composition.

Design

Secondary data analysis of prospective birth cohort studies.

Settings

Six birth cohorts from Brazil, Guatemala, India, the Philippines and South Africa.

Participants

4173 individuals followed from birth to ages 22-46 years with complete and valid weight and height at birth, infancy, childhood and adolescence, and body composition in adult life.

Exposures

Birth weight and conditional size (standardised residuals of height representing linear growth and of relative weight representing weight increments independent of linear size) in infancy, childhood and adolescence.

Primary outcome measures

Body mass index, fat mass ind

SUBMITTER: Poveda NE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10030655 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature