Identification of Children's BMI Trajectories and Prediction from Weight Gain in Infancy.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The goal of this study was to identify patterns of BMI changes across childhood (ages 24 months to 13 years) and to assess whether demographic characteristics, birth weight, and percent infant weight gain from birth to 15 months predicted BMI patterns.

Methods

Eleven waves of data from the Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development were used. Trained technicians assessed children's weight at birth and 10 times from 15 months to eighth grade (N = 1364). Latent growth modeling was used to estimate BMI change trajectories, and logistic regression was used to predict membership in trajectory classes.

Results

Children in the high-rising and low-to-high BMI patterns had the highest BMI of all trajectory groups during middle childhood. Birth weight and infant

SUBMITTER: Bichteler A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8287871 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature