Birth weight, early life weight gain and age at menarche: a systematic review of longitudinal studies

Juul, Filippa; Chang, Virginia W.; Brar, Preneet Cheema; Parekh, Niyati

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“…25 Although well established, the relationship between menarcheal age and anthropometry does not appear to be simple. Birth weight and subsequent weight gain early in life predict menarcheal age, 26 and both of these factors are associated with maternal age at menarche, 18,19 which is in itself another predictor of menarcheal age in the daughters. 24,27 We observed a relationship between the girls' menarcheal age and anthropometry after controlling for birth weight, but did not have data on growth in early life.…”

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Associations between maternal age at menarche and anthropometric and metabolic parameters in the adolescent offspring

Hong

Maessen

Dong

et al. 2019

Clinical Endocrinology

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Summary Objective We examined the associations between maternal age at menarche and anthropometry and metabolism in adolescent offspring. Methods Anthropometric, metabolic and blood pressure data were obtained from 304 girls and 190 boys aged 11‐16 years attending school in Hangzhou (China). Age at menarche for both mothers and daughters was self‐reported. Fasting blood samples were obtained and all participants underwent clinical examinations. Obesity was defined as BMI ≥95th percentile for age and sex. Results Older maternal age at menarche was associated with older age of their daughters at menarche (r = 0.21; P < 0.001). Mother's age at menarche was not associated with anthropometry or metabolism of daughters. However, younger maternal age at menarche was associated with increased hip and waist circumferences, and BMI SDS of their sons. Boys whose mothers were ≤13 years at menarche had an adjusted relative risk of obesity 3‐fold greater than sons of mothers with a later menarcheal onset (2.96; 95% CI 1.49, 5.87). Among daughters, every 1‐year increase in their age at menarche was associated with a 0.34 SDS reduction in BMI. Increasing age at menarche was also associated with reduced waist and hip circumferences (−1.5 and −1.8 cm/y, respectively) and waist‐to‐height ratio (−0.008 per year). Girls in the youngest menarcheal age tertile (8.8‐11.6 years) had diastolic blood pressure 2.2 mm Hg higher than other girls (P = 0.029). Conclusions Younger maternal age at menarche is associated with increased obesity risk in their sons, but not daughters. However, girls who experience menarche earlier have a less favourable anthropometric profile.

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Associations between maternal age at menarche and anthropometric and metabolic parameters in the adolescent offspring

Hong

Maessen

Dong

et al. 2019

Clinical Endocrinology

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“…Male pubertal timing is not well studied. For girls, an inverse association between childhood BMI and age at menarche has been identified [17] and studies have established a secular trend of earlier menarcheal age since the midnineteenth century [30], partly explained by increased childhood BMI during the last 60 years [31]. Retrospective studies of male puberty are limited by the lack of easily available pubertal indicators, therefore, less is known regarding the determinants and the consequences of male pubertal timing.…”

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“…Recently, using the large amount of data available through the UK Biobank study, women with menarche before 11 years of age (20.2%) were found to have 76% higher risk of type 2 diabetes than those aged between 11 and 15 years at menarche [5]. Given the clear inverse association between childhood BMI and age at menarche in women [13][14][15][16][17], adjustment for the confounding effect of prepubertal BMI is important. Only one study, which analysed data on 1381 women in a British birth cohort born in 1946, had data available for prepubertal height and weight and was able to adjust for childhood BMI.…”

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Early puberty and risk for type 2 diabetes in men

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Aims/hypothesis The association between pubertal timing and type 2 diabetes, independent of prepubertal BMI, is not fully understood. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the association between pubertal timing and risk of adult type 2 diabetes, independent of prepubertal BMI, in Swedish men. Methods We included 30,697 men who had data for BMI at age 8 and 20 years and age at Peak Height Velocity (PHV), an objective assessment of pubertal timing, available from the BMI Epidemiology Study Gothenburg (BEST Gothenburg), Sweden. Information on type 2 diabetes (n = 1851) was retrieved from the Swedish National Patient Register. HRs and 95% CIs were estimated by Cox regression analysis. We observed violations of the assumption of proportional hazards for the association between age at PHV and the risk of type 2 diabetes and therefore split the follow-up period at the median age of type 2 diabetes diagnosis (57.2 years of age) to define early (≤57.2 years) and late (>57.2 years) type 2 diabetes diagnosis. Results Age at PHV was inversely associated with both early (HR 1.28 per year decrease in age at PHV, 95% CI 1.21, 1.36) and late (HR 1.13, 95% CI 1.06, 1.19) type 2 diabetes. After adjustment for childhood BMI, the associations between age at PHVand both early (HR 1.24, 95% CI 1.17, 1.31) and late (HR 1.11, 95% CI 1.05, 1.17) type 2 diabetes were similar. Moreover, early age at PHV predicted insulin treatment of type 2 diabetes (OR 1.25 per year decrease in age at PHV, 95% CI 1.17, 1.33). Assuming a higher risk among those with an age at PHV below the median, the population attributable factor indicates that 15% fewer of the diagnosed individuals would have developed type 2 diabetes had they not reached puberty early. Conclusions/interpretation These findings indicate that early puberty may be a novel independent risk factor for type 2 diabetes.

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“…The relationships between nutritional status and menarcheal ages are complex and are influenced by biological and environmental factors (Aurino et al, ; Juul, Chang, Brar, & Parekh, ; Pathak, Tripathi, & Subramanian, ; Soliman, De Sanctis, & Elalaily, ). Whereas genetics are primary determinants, menarcheal ages are also associated positively with maternal well‐being, breastfeeding rates, certain diseases (e.g., diabetes), and negatively with intake of animal proteins, psychological stress, standard of living, and environmental exposure to endocrine disruptors (Abreu & Kaiser, ; Aurino et al, ; Yermachenko & Dvornyk, ).…”

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Relationship between early‐life nutrition and ages at menarche and first pregnancy, and childbirth rates of young adults: Evidence from APCAPS in India

Nandi

Behrman

Black

et al. 2019

Maternal & Child Nutrition

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India's Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) provides daily supplementary nutrition and other public health services to women and children. We estimated associations between exposure to early-childhood ICDS nutrition and adult reproductive outcomes. During 1987-1990, a balanced protein-calorie supplement called "upma"-made from locally available corn-soya ingredients-was rolled out by subdistricts near Hyderabad and offered to pregnant women and children under age 6 years.In a controlled trial, 15 villages received the supplement and 14 did not. We used data from a 2010-2012 resurvey of adults born during the trial (n = 715 in intervention and n = 645 in control arms). We used propensity score matching methods to estimate the associations between birth in an intervention village and menarcheal age, age at first pregnancy, and fertility of adults. We found that women born in the intervention group during the trial, as compared with the control group, had menarche 0.45 (95% confidence interval [CI: 0.22, 0.68]; p < .001) years later and first pregnancy 0.53 (95% CI [0.04, 1.02]; p < .05) years later. Married women from the intervention group had menarche 0.36 (95% CI [0.09, 0.64]; p < .01) years later, first cohabitation with partner 0.8 (95% CI [0.27, 1.33]; p < .01) years later, and first pregnancy 0.53 (95% CI [0.04, 1.02]; p < .05) years later than married women in the control group. There was no significant difference between intervention and control group women regarding whether they had at least one childbirth or the total number of children born. The findings were similar when we employed inverse propensity score weighted regression models.This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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Birth weight, early life weight gain and age at menarche: a systematic review of longitudinal studies

Cited by 72 publications

References 76 publications

Associations between maternal age at menarche and anthropometric and metabolic parameters in the adolescent offspring

Associations between maternal age at menarche and anthropometric and metabolic parameters in the adolescent offspring

Early puberty and risk for type 2 diabetes in men

Relationship between early‐life nutrition and ages at menarche and first pregnancy, and childbirth rates of young adults: Evidence from APCAPS in India

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