Infant body composition at 6 and 24 months: what are the driving factors?

ABSTRACT:

Background/objective

Available evidence on infant body composition is limited. This study aimed to investigate factors associated with body composition at 6 and 24 months.

Subjects/methods

Multicenter study with data from a 0 to 6-mo cohort (Australia, India and South Africa) and a 3 to 24-mo cohort (Brazil, Pakistan, South Africa, and Sri Lanka). For the 0-6-mo cohort, body composition was assessed by air-displacement plethysmography (ADP) and for the 3-24-month cohort by the deuterium dilution (DD) technique. Fat mass (FM), fat-free mass (FFM), FM index (FMI), and FFM index (FFMI) were calculated. Independent variables comprised the Gini index of the country, maternal and infant characteristics, and breastfeeding pattern at 3 months. For the 3-24-mo cohort, breastfeeding,

SUBMITTER: Santos IS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11537963 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature