Parent-reported child appetite moderates relationships between child genetic obesity risk and parental feeding practices.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Food parenting practices are associated with child weight. Such associations may reflect the effects of parents' practices on children's food intake and weight. However, longitudinal, qualitative, and behavioral genetic evidence suggests these associations could, in some cases, reflect parents' response to children's genetic risk for obesity, an instance of gene-environment correlation. We tested for gene-environment correlations across multiple domains of food parenting practices and explored the role of parent-reported child appetite in these relationships.

Materials and methods

Data on relevant variables were available for N = 197 parent-child dyads (7.54 ± 2.67 years; 44.4% girls) participating in RESONANCE, an ongoing pediatric cohort study. Children's

SUBMITTER: Jansen E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10266414 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature