Birthweight and cardiometabolic risk patterns in multiracial children.

ABSTRACT:

Background/objectives

Prenatal growth, which is widely marked by birthweight, may have a pivotal role in affecting the lifelong risk of cardiometabolic disorders; however, comprehensive evaluation of its relations with childhood cardiometabolic risk patterns and the ethnic and gender disparities in national representative populations is still lacking. The aim of this study was to evaluate the associations between birthweight and comprehensive patterns of cardiometabolic risk in a nationally representative sample of children and adolescents.

Subjects/methods

Prospective analyses were performed using data from 28 153 children 0 to 15 years in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey from 1999 through 2014. We defined childhood cardiometabolic disorders using standa

SUBMITTER: Sun D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5762398 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature