Ramírez-Luzuriaga, María J Kobes, Sayuko Sinha, Madhumita Knowler, William C Hanson, Robert L
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The Journal of nutrition
Growth abnormalities in childhood have been related to later cardiometabolic risks, but little is known about these associations in populations at high risk of type 2 diabetes. We examined the associations of patterns of growth, including weight and height at ages 1-59 months, with cardiometabolic risk factors at ages 5-16 years. We linked anthropo...
Yu, Jiaxiao Jin, Huili Wen, Li Zhang, Wenjin Saffery, Richard Tong, Chao Qi, Hongbo Kilby, Mark D Baker, Philip N
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Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine
To examine total sleep duration in infancy and the associations of insufficient sleep duration with later weight gain and the risk of overweight in a longitudinal twin cohort study. The data for this study are from the Longitudinal Twin Study (LoTiS), a twin-pregnancy birth cohort study that was carried out in China (n = 186 pairs). The sleep data ...
Campos, Ana Paola Vilar-Compte, Mireya Hawkins, Summer Sherburne
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Food and nutrition bulletin
Globally, the prevalence of child overweight has increased over the past few decades. The largest burden of child overweight is identified among upper-middle-income countries, such as Mexico. Breastfeeding has been identified as one of the key affordable and modifiable maternal health behaviors protecting against child overweight. To examine the as...
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This cluster randomized controlled trial aimed at overweight and obese children compared three treatments. Two psychoeducation interventions for parents and children were conducted: Family Lifestyle (FL) focused on food and physical activity; Family Dynamics (FD) added parenting and healthy emotion management. A third Peer Group (PG) intervention t...
Nalukenge Kakande, Khadeejah Mohammed, Nimo
Introduktion: Barnfetma och övervikt är växande folkhälsoproblem där var femte barn iSverige lider av det. Barn som tillhör svaga socioekonomiska grupper drabbas i störreutsträckning än andra barn. Detta förklaras av föräldrarnas låga utbildningsnivå, lågayrkesstatus och låga inkomstnivåer. Enligt WHO led 340 miljoner barn i åldrarna 5–19 år avöver...
Partap, Uttara Allcock, Sophie H Parker, Edyth Gurdasani, Deepti Young, Elizabeth H Sandhu, Manjinder S
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Global health, epidemiology and genomics
Recent research implicates antibiotic use as a potential contributor to child obesity risk. In this narrative review, we examine current observational evidence on the relation between antibiotic use in early childhood and subsequent measures of child body mass. We searched PubMed, Web of Science and the Cochrane Library to identify studies that ass...
Partap, Uttara Allcock, Sophie H Parker, Edyth Gurdasani, Deepti Young, Elizabeth H Sandhu, Manjinder S
Background: Recent research implicates antibiotic use as a potential contributor to child obesity risk. In this narrative review, we examine current observational evidence on the relation between antibiotic use in early childhood and subsequent measures of child body mass. Methods: We searched PubMed, Web of Science and the Cochrane Library to iden...
Fujiwara, Takeo Shimazu, Akihito Tokita, Masahito Shimada, Kyoko Takahashi, Masaya Watai, Izumi Iwata, Noboru Kawakami, Norito
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Frontiers in Public Health
The purpose of the study was to investigate the association between parental workaholism and child body mass index (BMI) among Japanese dual-income families. In 2011, 379 dual-income families from urban Tokyo with children aged 0–5 years were recruited for a baseline survey, and 160 (42.2%) were followed up in 2012. Demographics, workaholism, work ...
Margerison Zilko, Claire E. Rehkopf, David Abrams, Barbara
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American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Objective The purpose of this study was to investigate the associations between gestational weight gain (GWG) and small- and large-for-gestational-age (SGA, LGA), cesarean delivery, child overweight, and maternal postpartum weight retention in a diverse sample of women in the Unites States. Study Design We estimated associations between GWG (contin...
Gillman, Matthew W Rich-Edwards, Janet W Huh, Susanna Majzoub, Joseph A Oken, Emily Taveras, Elsie M Rifas-Shiman, Sheryl L
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Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.)
Fetal exposure to glucocorticoids, although associated with an overall decrease in body size, may cause an increase in central adiposity.
