Parity is associated with increased waist circumference and other anthropometric indices of obesity

Mansour, Abbas Ali; Ajeel, Narjis A.H.

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“…23,24 However, HDL cholesterol levels appeared to be more closely related to parity in the present study than in a study by Cowan et al (HDL cholesterol: 0.011 mmol/L vs. 0.007 mmol/L increase per live birth). 25 These results suggest that parity contributes to the development of MetS through such mechanisms as changes in fat distribution and lipid metabolism.…”

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Parity and Risk of Metabolic Syndrome Among Chinese Women

Shen

et al. 2015

Journal of Women's Health

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Parity and Risk of Metabolic Syndrome Among Chinese Women

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Journal of Women's Health

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“…Most existing studies have reported a positive association between parity and weight gain or BMI [5, 7–9, 16, 22, 23]. However, a few studies have incorporated abdominal measurements and their results have been inconsistent.…”

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“…A study of Chilean women concluded that parity moderately influenced BMI, but was unrelated to abdominal obesity [5]. Other studies have indicated that abdominal obesity, but not BMI, is significantly related to increased parities [6, 7]. …”

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“…In some prospective studies, increased BMI was only observed after the first childbirth and not after later childbirths [8, 9], whereas other studies have suggested a positive gradient with consecutive pregnancies [5, 7]. A 7-year follow-up study found that childbearing might not increase the incidence of obesity among parous young women in the USA [10].…”

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Association between parity and obesity patterns in a middle-aged and older Chinese population: a cross-sectional analysis in the Tongji-Dongfeng cohort study

Wang

Shen

et al. 2016

Nutr Metab (Lond)

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BackgroundHigher parity has been implicated as a risk factor for obesity of women. The objective of the study was to examine whether parity was associated with general obesity or abdominal obesity, or both, among middle-aged and older Chinese women.MethodsA total of 12,829 Chinese women (mean age: 64.8 years) with at least one live birth were selected from the Dongfeng–Tongji Cohort Study (phase II). We used body mass index to assess general obesity, and waist-to-hip ratio (WHR), waist-to-height ratio (WHtR) and waist circumference (WC) to assess abdominal obesity. We used multivariate linear and logistic regression models to investigate the association between parity and obesity.ResultsThe values of all four obesity measures increased with the greater number of live births (P for trend <0.001). After adjustment for potential confounders, women with four or more children had 1.72 times (95 % confidence interval [CI], 1.41–2.10) higher risk of general obesity, and 1.93 (95 % CI, 1.57–2.37), 2.09 (95 % CI, 1.65–3.64) and 1.58 (95 % CI, 1.28–1.94) times risk of abdominal obesity assessed by WHR, WHtR and WC, respectively. Furthermore, we observed an ascending gradient between parity and the three abdominal obesity measures.ConclusionsParity was positively associated with risk of obesity, especially abdominal obesity, in the long term among Chinese women.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12986-016-0133-7) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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“…On the other hand, obesity is a known risk factor for kidney cancer and is associated with pregnancy. Pregnancy-associated weight gain may contribute toward an increased risk of kidney cancer (46,47).…”

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Parity and Kidney Cancer Risk: Evidence from Epidemiologic Studies

Guan

Gong

2013

Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers &Amp; Prevention

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Background: Observational studies have reported conflicting results between parity and kidney cancer risk. To our knowledge, a comprehensive and quantitative assessment of the association between parity and kidney cancer has not been reported. Thus, we conducted a systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis of published epidemiologic studies to summarize the evidence of this association.Methods: Relevant published studies of parity and kidney cancer were identified using MEDLINE (PubMed) database through end of June 2013. Two authors independently assessed eligibility and extracted data. Six prospective and eight case-control studies reported relative risk (RR) estimates and 95% confidence intervals (CI) of kidney cancer associated with parity or parity number. Fixed-or random-effects models were used to estimate summary relative risk.Results: The summary relative risk of kidney cancer for the parity versus nulliparous was 1.23 (95% CI, 1.10-1.36; Q ¼ 12.41; P ¼ 0.413; I 2 ¼ 3.3%). In addition, significant association was also found for the highest

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Parity is associated with increased waist circumference and other anthropometric indices of obesity

Abstract: Parity was associated with increased WC and other anthropometric indices of obesity in a sample of rural Iraqi women attending two primary health care centers.

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Parity and Risk of Metabolic Syndrome Among Chinese Women

Parity and Risk of Metabolic Syndrome Among Chinese Women

Association between parity and obesity patterns in a middle-aged and older Chinese population: a cross-sectional analysis in the Tongji-Dongfeng cohort study

Parity and Kidney Cancer Risk: Evidence from Epidemiologic Studies

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