Infant feeding practices and risk of preschool obesity in AlAin, UAE: A cross-sectional study.

Autor:	AlTarrah D; Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Faculty of Public Health, Kuwait University, Kuwait City, Kuwait., Lanigan J; Joint institution UCL Great Ormond Street Hospital, Institute of Child Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom., Feehan J; Institute for Health and Sport, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia., Al Dhaheri AS; Department of Nutrition and Health, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates., Shah SM; Institute of Public Health, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates., Cheikh Ismail L; Department of Clinical Nutrition and Dietetics, College of Health Sciences, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.; Department of Women's and Reproductive Health, University of Oxford, Nuffield, Oxford, United Kingdom., Singhal A; Joint institution UCL Great Ormond Street Hospital, Institute of Child Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	PLOS global public health [PLOS Glob Public Health] 2024 Feb 08; Vol. 4 (2), pp. e0002803. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Feb 08 (Print Publication: 2024).
DOI:	10.1371/journal.pgph.0002803
Abstrakt:	Early childhood obesity is serious public health problem, and poses a risk of obesity in later life. The study aimed to investigate whether infant feeding affects risk of overweight and obesity in preschool children in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). A cross-sectional study was carried out. Data was collected in a kindergarten in Al Ain, UAE. One hundred and fifty parents and preschool children aged 2 to 6 years participated in the study. Univariate and multivariate linear regression were used to investigate associations. A longer duration of breastfeeding and later introduction of complementary foods were associated with a lower BMI z-score in preschool children. Each month of any breastfeeding was associated with a lower BMI z-score in the unadjusted model (β = -0.03; 95% CI -0.05, -0.01; p = 0.01), and each month increase in the age of introducing complementary foods was associated with a lower BMI z-score in the unadjusted model (β = -0.43; 95% CI: -0.60 to-0.027; p<0.001). These associations remained after adjustment for potential confounding factors (age, sex, maternal BMI, maternal education level, mother's age, social class, father's BMI) for duration of breastfeedinig (β = -0.02; 95% CI: -0.05 to 0.00; p<0.001) and age of complementary feeding (β = -0.39; 95% CI: -0.57 to-0.21; p<0.001). Poor infant feeding practices (shorter duration of breastfeedinig and early introduction of complementary foods) were found to be associated with higher BMI in preschool children. Promoting appropriate proper infant feeding practices in line with recommendations could be one strategy to help prevent childhood obesity in the UAE. Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. (Copyright: © 2024 AlTarrah et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.)
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