Physical growth and neurodevelopment during the first year of life: a cohort study of the Japan Environment and Children's Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The association between a slower physical growth and poorer neurodevelopment has been established in infants born preterm or small for gestational age. However, this association is inconsistent in term-born infants, and detailed investigations in infancy, when intervention is most beneficial for improving outcomes, are lacking. We therefore examined this association separately by sex during the first year of life in term-born infants.

Methods

Using data collected until children reached 12 months old in an ongoing prospective cohort of the Japan Environment and Children's Study, we analyzed 44,264 boys and 42,541 girls with singleton term-birth. The exposure variables were conditional variables that disentangle linear growth from weight gain relative to linear grow

SUBMITTER: Sanefuji M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8385793 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature