Low birth weight and obesity: causal or casual casual association?

Ribeiro, Adolfo Monteiro; Lima, Marília de Carvalho; Lira, Pedro Israel Cabral de; Silva, Giselia Alves Pontes da

doi:10.1016/j.rppede.2015.06.014

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“…Only one study included measures of paternal smoking or weight, which is a limitation because paternal genetics, attitudes, and behaviours likely also affect childhood adiposity, and their exclusion from models overemphasizes the effect of maternal factors . The exclusion of preterm and low birthweight babies in some studies may have affected the estimates as these outcomes may be on the causal pathway between the environment and childhood adiposity, given evidence of links between the environment, birth outcomes, and infancy catch‐up growth for preterm and small babies . Residual confounding may also occur at the area‐level, where certain environments experience multiple forms of disadvantage in terms of suitability for healthy weight gain, for example, areas with limited park access tend to have fewer outlets selling healthy foods .…”

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“…This stance is informed by evidence that 13% to 24% of preterm births globally are attributable to PM 2.5 exposure in a logistic regression model and that PM 2.5 exposure increases the risk of being born low birth weight . Being born preterm or low birth weight subsequently affects childhood adiposity in turn through early‐life compensatory growth …”

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Maternal and early‐life area‐level characteristics and childhood adiposity: A systematic review

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Summary There is a cross‐sectional evidence that physical and social environments are linked to childhood adiposity. Evidence is scarce for the role of preconception, pregnancy, and early‐life area‐level characteristics in shaping childhood adiposity. We aimed to systematically review evidence for associations between physical and social environmental conditions experienced in these periods and childhood adiposity. Published literature was identified from the CINAHL, Embase, MEDLINE, and PsycINFO databases. Longitudinal studies linking an area‐level environmental exposure in the preconception, pregnancy, or early‐life (less than 1 year) periods and a measure of adiposity between the ages of 2 and 12 years were examined. Eight studies in the United States, Denmark, South Korea, United Kingdom, and Canada satisfied the inclusion criteria. Storm‐induced maternal stress, nitrogen oxides exposure, traffic noise, and proximity were associated with greater childhood adiposity. Frequent neighbourhood disturbances were associated with lower adiposity, while particulate matter exposure was associated with both higher and lower adiposity in childhood. Area‐level characteristics may play a role in the ongoing obesity epidemic. There is a limited evidence of longitudinal associations between preconception, pregnancy, and early‐life area‐level characteristics with childhood adiposity. Numerous factors that appear important in cross‐sectional research have yet to be assessed longitudinally, both individually and in combination.

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Maternal and early‐life area‐level characteristics and childhood adiposity: A systematic review

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“…To this end, it may be speculated that cardiometabolic events and obesity originate from intrauterine nutritional deficiency, associated with a food supply that is excessive to the metabolic needs of the organism in early life stages, which promotes catch-up growth in an effort to recover from intrauterine constraint. Depending on nutritional adequacy in the first years of life, developmental plasticity may lead to phenotype reprogramming and reduce the risk of obesity (Ribeiro et al, 2015). Malnutrition during gestation may cause intrauterine growth retardation and low birth weight, which may result in postnatal catch-up growth and consequently onset and development of obesity and type 2 diabetes.…”

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Epigenetics and obesity cardiomyopathy: From pathophysiology to prevention and management

Zhang

Ren

2016

Pharmacology & Therapeutics

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“…Plasticity occurs more in some critical window periods, which generate long lasting effects in the phenotype. 11,12 Relation between birth weight and subsequent development of obesity/overweight has been assessed in several other studies.…”

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Association of birth weight with body mass index of school children of central India: a cross sectional study

Petkar

Thakre

Thakre³

et al. 2017

Int J Community Med Public Health

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Background: Overweight and obesity has become an important public health problem in both developed and developing nations. This is even more alarming as obese children are likely to become obese adults. Methods: A cross sectional study was conducted in a government aided school in urban area of Nagpur, Maharashtra during January 2016 to April 2016. This study was conducted in students of age group of 9 to 15 years to assess the association of birth weight and body mass index of school children. Height and weight of the children were measured according to standard guidelines. BMI was calculated and classified using the percentile charts according to age and gender. Data was collected using EPI Info version 7.2. Descriptive statistics using frequencies and percentages were used. Chi square test was used to indicate the differences between two proportions. Odds ratio was used to define the strength of the association. Results: The mean age of children was 11.92±1.27 and 11.31±1.27 in males and females respectively. In our study, there was a significant positive association between the birth weight and body mass index of the children. Conclusions: We found that the children whose birth weight was lower than 2500 grams were having decreased risk of being overweight/ obese in their later life with an odds ratio of 0.55 (0.34 to 0.90). But, the correlation between the birth weight and body mass index is weakly positive (r=0.063).

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Low birth weight and obesity: causal or casual casual association?

Abstract: Objective: To present the conceptual foundations that explain how events occurring during intrauterine life may influence body development, emphasizing the interrelation between low birth weight and risk of obesity throughout life.

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Maternal and early‐life area‐level characteristics and childhood adiposity: A systematic review

Maternal and early‐life area‐level characteristics and childhood adiposity: A systematic review

Epigenetics and obesity cardiomyopathy: From pathophysiology to prevention and management

Association of birth weight with body mass index of school children of central India: a cross sectional study

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