Maternal body mass index: Relation with infant respiratory symptoms and infections.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Maternal obesity is increasingly prevalent in many westernized countries. Many studies report associations between maternal obesity and childhood wheeze or asthma but few have considered maternal obesity in relation to respiratory infections or symptoms other than wheeze during infancy. This study assesses the relationship between maternal BMI and reported wheeze, cough and respiratory infections during the first year of life.

Methods

In 2799 mother-child pairs, we examined the relations between maternal pre-pregnancy BMI and pregnancy weight gain and reported offspring wheeze, prolonged cough, lower respiratory tract infection, croup, and ear infection before age 1 year, along with reported diarrhea or vomiting. Maternally reported paternal BMI was included in th

SUBMITTER: Rajappan A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5612396 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature