Sleep-wake patterns in newborns are associated with infant rapid weight gain and incident adiposity in toddlerhood.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Rapid weight gain (RWG) by 6 months of life is a significant risk factor of childhood overweight (OW)/obesity. Infant sleep patterns are associated with incident OW in childhood, but few have examined its relationship with RWG.

Objective

Examine associations between newborn sleep-wake patterns and incident RWG at 6 months of life and OW at 36 months.

Methods

Low-income Mexican/Mexican-American women with OW/obesity and their infants (n = 126) enrolled in a 1-year randomized controlled trial designed to prevent incident, infant RWG and toddlerhood OW/obesity. Sleep pattern metrics at 1 month were extracted from the Brief Infant Sleep Questionnaire-Revised. Outcome measures included RWG (>0.67 positive change in weight-for-age Z-score) from birth to 6 months

SUBMITTER: Petrov ME 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8344177 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature