Maternal Blood Pressure Rise During Pregnancy and Offspring Obesity Risk at 4 to 7 Years Old: The Jiaxing Birth Cohort.

ABSTRACT:

Context

Maternal hypertensive disorders during pregnancy are suggested to affect obesity risk in offspring. However, little is known about the prospective association of rise in maternal blood pressure within normal range during pregnancy with this risk for obesity.

Objective

To clarify the associations of diastolic and systolic blood pressure during pregnancy among normotensive women with the risk for obesity in offspring.

Design

Prospective cohort study.

Setting

Southeast China.

Participants

Up to 2013, a total of 88,406 mother-child pairs with anthropometric measurements of offspring age 4 to 7 years were included in the present analysis.

Main outcome measures

Overweight/obesity risk in offspring.

Results

Among normotensive women, second

SUBMITTER: Zheng JS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6112413 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature