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Nazareth, Margarida, Pinto, Elisabete, Severo, Milton, Lopes, Carla, Rêgo, Carla |
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Public Health Nutrition; Jul2021, Vol. 24 Issue 10, p2798-2807, 10p |
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Objective: To assess the longitudinal association between parental BMI and offspring's BMI, in EPACI Portugal 2012.Design: Longitudinal study with retrospective collection of children's anthropometry data since birth. Children's anthropometric data were gathered from individual child health bulletins, and parents' anthropometrics were self-reported. Children's and parents' BMI were classified according to WHO cut-offs. Linear mixed models with random intercept and slope for age were applied to quantify the association between parental BMI and children BMI Z-score (zBMI).Setting: EPACI Portugal 2012.Participants: Representative sample from the Portuguese population (n 2230) aged from 12 to 36 months.Results: 58·9 % of the fathers and 35·6 % of the mothers were overweight (OW) or obese. Prevalence of infants who were, at least, at risk of OW increased from 17·0 % to 30·3 % since birth to 12 months. About half of the mothers with pre-pregnancy OW and obesity (OB) gained gestational weight above the recommendations. The children from mothers with gestational weight gain (GWG) below the recommendations showed a -0·15 SD lower zBMI (95 % CI -0·23, -0·06) in early life, comparing with mothers within GWG recommendations. Children of obese mothers were more likely to present a higher zBMI (0·24 SD, 95 % CI 0·13, 0·35) throughout the first months of life.Conclusions: A high prevalence of OW and OB was observed in Portuguese young adults and toddlers. Mothers' pre-pregnancy BMI and insufficient GWG had a direct effect on offspring BMI. Early effective interventions are needed in order to prevent the transgenerational transmission of OB. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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Complementary Index |
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