Maternal History of Child Abuse and Obesity Risk in Offspring: Mediation by Weight in Pregnancy.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Women's experience of childhood adversity may contribute to their children's risk of obesity. Possible causal pathways include higher maternal weight and gestational weight gain, which have been associated with both maternal childhood adversity and obesity in offspring.

Methods

This study included 6718 mother-child pairs from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 in the United States (1979-2012). We applied multiple log-binomial regression models to estimate associations between three markers of childhood adversity (physical abuse, household alcoholism, and household mental illness) and offspring obesity in childhood. We estimated natural direct effects to evaluate mediation by prepregnancy BMI and gestational weight gain.

Results

Among every 100 m

SUBMITTER: Leonard SA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5549809 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature