Associations of maternal BMI and gestational weight gain with neonatal adiposity in the Healthy Start study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Maternal obesity and weight gain during pregnancy are risk factors for child obesity. Associations may be attributable to causal effects of the intrauterine environment or genetic and postnatal environmental factors.

Objective

We estimated associations of maternal prepregnancy body mass index (BMI) and gestational weight gain (GWG) overall and in early pregnancy, midpregnancy, and late pregnancy with neonatal adiposity.

Design

Participants were 826 women enrolled in a Colorado prebirth cohort who delivered term infants (2010-2013). GWG to 39 wk of gestation was predicted by using mixed models, and early pregnancy, midpregnancy, and late pregnancy rates of GWG (0-17, 17-27, and 27 wk to delivery) were calculated from repeated weight measures. Neonatal body c

SUBMITTER: Starling AP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4307203 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature