The association between childcare and risk of childhood overweight and obesity in children aged 5 years and under: a systematic review

Alberdi, Goiuri; McNamara, A.; Lindsay, Karen L.; Scully, Helena; Horan, Mary H.; Gibney, Eileen R.; McAuliffe, Fionnuala M.

doi:10.1007/s00431-016-2768-9

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“…To discover the potential relationships between BMI and other markers against galectin-3 at a young age is important because of the increased risk of developing obesity in adulthood and the likelihood of serious short-term and long-term health problems in obese children and adolescents (24,25). In this respect, our study data in adolescents makes it difficult to establish a relationship between the levels of obesity and galectin-3 observed in this group.…”

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Evaluation of Galectin-3 Levels in Obese Adolescents

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Türkkan

et al. 2019

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Background: Galectin-3 is a member of the family of soluble beta-galactoside binding lectins, which is involved in inflammation, cell differentiation, adhesion, proliferation, angiogenesis and cancer cell invasion. Increased galectin-3 levels in obese patients have been shown in previous studies. In our study; we aimed to investigate the galectin-3 levels in obese adolescents for the first time in the literature. Materials and methods: A total of 85 adolescent patients who were admitted to our pediatrics outpatient clinic between December 19th of 2018 and January 31st of 2019 were included in our study. Among those patients 52 were obese and 33 were normal-weighted. Adolescents having body mass index (BMI) 95% percentile and above according to their age and sex were defined as obese. Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay kit was used for the measurement of galectin-3 in serum. Laboratory tests (Galectin-3, HbA1c, glucose, insulin, HOMA-IR), sex, age and BMI were statistically compared between groups. Results: We found no statistically significant difference in terms of gender distribution rates, age, glucose or galectin-3 levels among obese adolescent and healthy control groups (p> 0.05). The BMI, HbA1c, HOMA-IR and insulin levels of the obese adolescent group were found to be significantly higher than the healthy control group (p <0.05). We found no statistically significant correlation between galectin-3 levels and other parameters in obese adolescent group (p> 0.05). Conclusion: In our study, we did not find any relationship between serum galectin-3 levels and obesity in adolescents. We believe that the effects of galectin-3 levels on obesity in adolescents should be more clearly explained by further investigations, which also measures other biomarkers of the mechanism of action. Keywords: Galectin-3, obesity, adolescent List of abbreviations: BMI: Body-Mass Index, CV: Variation coefficient, ELISA: Enzyme linked immunoassay, HOMA-IR: Homeostatic model of assessment-insulin resistance, IL: Interleukin, r: Correlation coefficient, SD: Standard deviation.

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Evaluation of Galectin-3 Levels in Obese Adolescents

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“…Broadly, those authors suggest CBC may protect against overweight by promoting a healthier diet and providing health care [62]. Yet other studies have found no association between CBC and childhood overweight [67][68][69][70][71][72][73][74]. Attending CBC could be associated with lower risk of child overweight or obesity through several pathways, including planned nutritional programs and learning environments, healthy eating, regular opportunities for physical activity, regular bedtime and rise time, and reduced screen time (eg, computers, mobile phones, television) [62,63,75,76].…”

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Centre-based care is a significant predictor of lower body mass index in early childhood: Longitudinal evidence from Chile

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Undurraga

2020

Journal of Global Health

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Background The prevalence of childhood overweight has increased by approximately 50% in the past three decades, becoming a major public health concern worldwide. In Chile, an upper middle-income country, about 38% of children between two and four years of age are overweight, almost double the average in Latin America and the Caribbean. Various environmental and individual factors, and their interactions, affect childhood weight. Emerging evidence suggests childcare may also matter. Because the public provision of centre-based care is growing, childcare may be a useful policy tool to help prevent childhood overweight. Methods Using a nationally representative longitudinal survey of ~ 15 000 children in Chile (2010 and 2012), we estimated whether the type of child care (centre-based or maternal) a child attended at age 24 to 36 months was a significant predictor of the child' s sex-and-age-specific body-mass-index (BMI) at age 36-48 months. We restricted our sample to children in full-time maternal care at baseline (12-24 months of age; n = 1273), but tested the robustness of results with the full sample. We compared children in centre-based care and in maternal care using difference-indifference estimators and propensity score matching, and adjusted our estimates using child, family, and neighborhood characteristics. Results Children attending centre-based care had 0.27 SD lower BMI than children in maternal care at follow-up (P < 0.05). We found suggestive evidence this association may be modulated by the child' s socioeconomic status and by how frequently the child watched television: we found smaller BMI changes for children at the bottom 80% of socioeconomic status (P < 0.05) and also for children who frequently watched television (P < 0.10). Our results were robust to various model specifications. Conclusions Our findings suggest centre-based care programs, with adequate regulation and enforcement, may be a useful support to help curb the early childhood overweight epidemic, in addition to known effects in labor supply and child development. Electronic supplementary material: The online version of this article contains supplementary material.

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“…Two of the studies included in Alberdi et al . 's () systematic review were conducted in the UK (Pearce et al . ; Tanskanen ).…”

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“…The second study of UK data included in Alberdi et al . 's () systematic review used the same data set as Pearce et al . () to explore whether the contribution of grandparental childcare to increased risk of childhood overweight and obesity was dependent on the lineage of the grandparent ( i.e .…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The first systematic review to examine the relationship between childcare attendance and childhood obesity risk in children aged 5 years and under was recently published (Alberdi et al 2016). The literature was searched for studies published in the English language between 2000 and 2016, where the independent variable was childcare exposure and the dependent variable prevalence of childhood overweight and/or obesity (up to 5 years of age).…”

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