Infancy weight gain, parental socioeconomic position, and childhood overweight and obesity: a Danish register-based cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Rapid infant weight gain (RIWG) is a very strong predictor of childhood overweight and obesity (COO). Socioeconomic position (SEP) is also related to the risk of COO and parents of different SEP may differ in their reaction to accelerated infant weight gain. Together this could lead to differences in how weight gain and COO risk relate across SEP. This study aimed to analyse possible interaction of SEP and RIWG on COO risk.

Methods

A register-based longitudinal cohort study followed 19,894 healthy, term infants, born in Denmark between December 2011 and May 2015. Logistic regression models were used to estimate odds ratios (OR) of COO risk at 2 years (22-26 months) of age with 95% confidence intervals (95% CI) for categories of infancy weight gain based on changes

SUBMITTER: Rotevatn TA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6720844 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature