Early Life Weight Gain and Development of Childhood Asthma in a Prospective Birth Cohort.

ABSTRACT:

Rationale

The prevalence of childhood asthma has been increasing worldwide in parallel with childhood obesity.

Objectives

We investigated whether there is a temporal relationship between early life weight gain (reflecting growth velocity) and early life body mass index (BMI) attained status (reflecting accumulative weight) with future risk of asthma in the Boston Birth Cohort.

Methods

This report includes 1,928 children from the Boston Birth Cohort with a mean age of 7.8 years (standard deviation, 3.3 yr), enrolled at birth and followed prospectively. Asthma was defined using physician diagnosis code (International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification code 493.xx) in children 2 years and older. We categorized the children by their weight g

SUBMITTER: Tsai HJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6321993 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature