Associations between birthweight and overweight and obesity in school-age children.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Relationships between birthweight and future obesity risk remain unclear.

Objective

To assess associations between birthweight and later obesity in a nationally representative cohort of early school-aged children.

Methods

We used linear and logistic regression to evaluate 10 186 term- or preterm children in the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten Cohort 2011 for relationships between birthweight and later obesity and change in BMI z-score from kindergarten-to-second grade. All analyses were adjusted for sex, race/ethnicity, parental education and household income.

Results

Compared to children born normal birthweight (NBW), high birthweight (HBW) term children and large-for-gestational-age (LGA) preterm children had significantly greater B

SUBMITTER: Kapral N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5756526 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature