Maternal stress and early childhood BMI among US children from the Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) program.

ABSTRACT:

Background

We aimed to understand the association between maternal stress in the first year of life and childhood body mass index (BMI) from 2 to 4 years of age in a large, prospective United States-based consortium of cohorts.

Methods

We used data from the Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes program. The main exposure was maternal stress in the first year of life measured with the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS). The main outcome was the first childhood BMI percentile after age 2 until age 4 years. We used an adjusted linear mixed effects model to examine associations between BMI and PSS quartile.

Results

The mean BMI percentile in children was 59.8 (SD 30) measured at 3.0 years (SD 1) on average. In both crude models and models adjusted for maternal BMI,

SUBMITTER: Wood CT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10938641 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature