The Protective Effect of Prenatal Social Support on Infant Adiposity in the First 18 Months of Life.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine whether prenatal social support was associated with infant adiposity in the first 18 months of life in a low-income, Hispanic sample, known to be at high risk of early child obesity.

Study design

We performed a longitudinal analysis of 262 low-income, Hispanic mother-infant pairs in the control group of the Starting Early child obesity prevention trial. Prenatal social support was measured using an item from the Maternal Social Support Index. We used multilevel modeling to predict weight-for-length z-score trajectories from birth to age 18 months and logistic regression to predict macrosomia and overweight status at ages 6, 12, and 18 months.

Results

High prenatal social support was independently associated with lower infant adiposity trajectori

SUBMITTER: Katzow M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6535345 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature