Gestational weight change and childhood body composition trajectories from pregnancy to early adolescence.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

A mother-child dyad trajectory model of weight and body composition spanning from conception to adolescence was developed to understand how early life exposures shape childhood body composition.

Methods

African American (49.3%) and Dominican (50.7%) pregnant mothers (n = 337) were enrolled during pregnancy, and their children (47.5% female) were followed from ages 5 to 14. Gestational weight gain (GWG) was abstracted from medical records. Child weight, height, percentage body fat, and waist circumference were measured. GWG and child body composition trajectories were jointly modeled with a flexible latent class model with a class membership component that included prepregnancy BMI.

Results

Four prenatal and child body composition trajectory patterns were ide

SUBMITTER: Widen EM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8957403 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature