Physical development at 7 years of age in relation to velocity of weight gain in infancy with special reference to incidence of overweight.

Mellbin, Tore; Vuille, J. C.

doi:10.1136/jech.27.4.225

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“…Six studies examined obesity in children, four with body mass index6 22 30 32 and two with weight 28 29. Of two studies of adolescents, one defined obesity according to body mass index and the other used a clinical definition 19 24.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Being big or growing fast: systematic review of size and growth in infancy and later obesity

Baird

Fisher²,

Lucas³

et al. 2005

BMJ

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Objectives To assess the association between infant size or growth and subsequent obesity and to determine if any association has been stable over time. Design Systematic review. Data sources Medline, Embase, bibliographies of included studies, contact with first authors of included studies and other experts. Inclusion criteria Studies that assessed the relation between infant size or growth during the first two years of life and subsequent obesity. Main outcome measure Obesity at any age after infancy. Results 24 studies met the inclusion criteria (22 cohort and two case-control studies). Of these, 18 assessed the relation between infant size and subsequent obesity, most showing that infants who were defined as "obese" or who were at the highest end of the distribution for weight or body mass index were at increased risk of obesity. Compared with non-obese infants, in those who had been obese odds ratios or relative risks for subsequent obesity ranged from 1.35 to 9.38. Ten studies assessed the relation of infant growth with subsequent obesity and most showed that infants who grew more rapidly were at increased risk of obesity. Compared with other infants, in infants with rapid growth odds ratios and relative risks of later obesity ranged from 1.17 to 5.70. Associations were consistent for obesity at different ages and for people born over a period from 1927 to 1994. Conclusions Infants who are at the highest end of the distribution for weight or body mass index or who grow rapidly during infancy are at increased risk of subsequent obesity.

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“…Associations between infant growth and later obesity were consistent over time: year of birth ranged from 1945 to 1994. Three studies, two in children and one in adolescents, failed to show an association between infant growth and later obesity 24 28 29…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Being big or growing fast: systematic review of size and growth in infancy and later obesity

Baird

Fisher²,

Lucas³

et al. 2005

BMJ

1,022

833

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“…Is the weight attained a causal factor itself or merely an expression of some genetic predisposition? Several studies speculate that only a proportion of weight gain in infancy can be attributed to variations in dietary intake (56). It is still speculative if limiting weight gain in childhood will have any long-term infl uence on adult weight status.…”

Section: Body Massmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Several connect overweight in infancy to obesity at the age of 5-7 years, and others correlate mid-child hood and early-adult obesity (55)(56)(57). Although no single study has fol lowed children from birth to adulthood, the inference for these separate studies is suggestive.…”

Section: Body Massmentioning

confidence: 99%

Coronary Risk Factors in the Young

Stein¹,

Glueck²,

Morrison³

1981

Annu. Rev. Med.

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The exceptional growth in risk factor assessment and the efficacy of primary prevention in childhood of atherosclerotic and hypertensive diseases is the subject of entire books that have recently collated the results of multiple investigators (58, 59). It is a topic well beyond the constraints of this review. It appears that the major "adult" CHD risk factors, including elevated total plasma and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, elevated triglyceride, reduced high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, high blood pressure, obesity, and initiation of cigarette smoking can usually be recognized in children. There are, as yet, no longitudinal studies that control for one or more of these CHD risk factor variables to determine whether future development of CHD could be prevented or ameliorated. In the absence of unequivocal longitudinal studies of efficacy of intervention, prudent, safe, and well-supervised interventions should be carried out only after exhaustive proof of diagnosis (58). The recently summarized data suggest that they hyperlipoproteinemias, high blood pressure, obesity, and initiation of cigarette smoking can (with varying degrees of success) be dealt with during childhood and adolescence.

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“…Bottlefeeding and early introduction of solid foods have been consistently linked to rapid growth and the development of infantile obesity (Taitz, 1971;Steward and Westropp, 1953;Jackson etaL, 1964;Hooper and Alexander, 1971;Fomon etaL, 1971;Shukla et al, 1972;Neumann and Alpaugh, 1976). Rapid growth during infancy and/or being obese as an infant has, in turn, often been linked to overweight and obesity later in childhood (Asher, 1966;Eid, 1970;Mack and Ipsen, 1974) adolescence (Heald and Hollander, 1965) and adulthood (Abraham, Collins and Nordsieck, 1960;Charney etaL, 1976), although some conflicting evidence exists and the issue remains controversial (Mellbin and Vuille, 1973;Poskitt and Cole, 1977).…”

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Patterns of growth in weight and length among American Samoan infants

Pelletier

Bindon

1986

Ecology of Food and Nutrition

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Well baby clinic records on 1, 186 infants born in 1975 to 1976 on the island of Tutuila, American Samoa, form the basis for this study of the growth in weight and length from birth to 12 months. Semi-longitudinal curves of weight and length indicate that these infants have median weights near the NCHS 75th percentile (boys) and 90th percentile (girls) up to 6 months, falling to just below the 75th percentile by 12 months. Median lengths are between the NCHS 50th and 25th percentile. Weight gain from birth to six months was found to be higher than for any other reported population (4.92 kg, sexes combined). The infant feeding pattern was found to exert a significant influence on rate of weight gain for boys between birth and 1-4 months, with the breast-fed boys gaining more rapidly than artificial-fed infants.

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Physical development at 7 years of age in relation to velocity of weight gain in infancy with special reference to incidence of overweight.

Cited by 26 publications

References 18 publications

Being big or growing fast: systematic review of size and growth in infancy and later obesity

Being big or growing fast: systematic review of size and growth in infancy and later obesity

Coronary Risk Factors in the Young

Patterns of growth in weight and length among American Samoan infants

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