Change in Weight Status From Childhood to Young Adulthood and Risk of Adult Coronary Heart Disease.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Childhood overweight is associated with adult coronary heart disease (CHD); the extent to which this risk can be mitigated by remission of childhood overweight before young adulthood is not clear.

Objective

To evaluate if remission of elevated childhood weight before young adulthood mitigates the risk of adult CHD.

Design, setting, and participants

This population-based cohort study was conducted among individuals born between 1945 and 1968 in Gothenburg, Sweden, as a part of the BMI Epidemiology Study (BEST). Archived child and school health records were linked to national high-quality registers in November 2022. Data analysis was performed from 2024 to 2025.

Exposures

Childhood (women at age 7 years and men at age 8 years) and young adult (women ag

SUBMITTER: Ohlsson C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12670265 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature