Associations between a paternal healthy lifestyle score and its individual components with childhood overweight and obesity.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Maternal healthy lifestyle behaviors during pregnancy have been associated with reduced risk of offspring overweight and obesity (OWOB). However, there has been little investigation, in the context of the Paternal Origins of Health and Disease (POHaD) paradigm, of the potential influence of the paternal lifestyle on offspring OWOB.

Objectives

To describe paternal healthy lifestyle factors around pregnancy and investigate their associations, individually and combined, with offspring risk of OWOB during childhood.

Materials and methods

Participants included 295 father-child pairs from the Lifeways Cross-Generation Cohort Study. A composite paternal healthy lifestyle score (HLS) based on having a high dietary quality (top 40% of the Healthy Eating Index-2015),

SUBMITTER: Aubert AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11635592 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature