Early childhood risk factors for constipation and soiling at school age: an observational cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Constipation and soiling are common in childhood. This study examines the comorbidity between childhood constipation and soiling and early childhood risk factors for these problems.

Design

The sample comprised 8435 participants from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children with maternally reported measures of constipation (six time points between 4 and 10 years) and soiling (five time points between 4 and 9 years). We used latent class analysis to extract longitudinal patterns of constipation and soiling. We examined whether the latent classes are differentially associated with maternally reported risk factors in early childhood (stool consistency, breast feeding, socioeconomic background, gestation, birth weight, developmental level and age at initiatio

SUBMITTER: Heron J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5843013 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature