Infant body mass index peak and early childhood cardio-metabolic risk markers in a multi-ethnic Asian birth cohort.

ABSTRACT:

Background

: Infant body mass index (BMI) peak has received much interest recently as a potential predictor of future obesity and metabolic risk. No studies, however, have examined infant BMI peak in Asian populations, in whom the risk of metabolic disease is higher.

Methods

: We utilized data among 1020 infants from a mother-offspring cohort, who were Singapore citizens or permanent residents of Chinese, Malay or Indian ethnicity with homogeneous parental ethnic backgrounds, and did not receive chemotherapy, psychotropic drugs or have diabetes mellitus. Ethnicity was self-reported at recruitment and later confirmed using genotype analysis. Subject-specific BMI curves were fitted to infant BMI data using natural cubic splines with random coefficients to account for repeated

SUBMITTER: Aris IM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5231275 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature