Developmental trajectory of appetitive traits and their bidirectional relations with body mass index from infancy to early childhood.

ABSTRACT: Appetitive traits, including food responsiveness, enjoyment of food, satiety responsiveness and slowness in eating, are associated with childhood body mass index. Change in appetitive traits from infancy to childhood and the direction of causality between appetitive traits and body mass index are unclear. The present study examined the developmental trajectory of appetitive traits and their bidirectional relations with body mass index, from infancy to early childhood. Mothers in the Pregnancy Eating Attributes Study and follow-up (n = 162) reported child appetitive traits using the Baby and Child Eating Behaviour Questionnaires at ages 6 months and 3.5 years, respectively. Standardized body mass index (zBMI) was calculated from child anthropometrics. Cross-lagged panel models estimated bid

SUBMITTER: Cummings JR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10841422 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature