Association of BMI with Linear Growth and Pubertal Development.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship of BMI with subsequent statural growth among children born in the era of the obesity epidemic.

Methods

Among 18,271 children from Belarus (n = 16,781, born 1996 to 1997) and the United States (n = 1,490, born 1999 to 2002), multivariable linear and ordinal logistic regression was used to analyze associations of BMI z score from infancy to adolescence with subsequent standardized length and height velocity, standing height and its components (trunk and leg lengths), and pubertal timing.

Results

The prevalence of early adolescent obesity was 6.2% in Belarus and 12.8% in the United States. In both Belarusian and US children, higher BMI z scores in infancy and childhood were associated with faster length

SUBMITTER: Aris IM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6756952 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature