Infancy and childhood growth and physical activity in adolescence: prospective birth cohort study from Brazil

International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity

Jonathan C K Wells²  Cesar G Victora¹  Ana M B Menezes¹  Felipe F Reichert¹  Ulf Ekelund³  Samuel C Dumith¹  Pedro C Hallal¹ 

[1] Federal University of Pelotas, Rua Marechal Deodoro 1160, 96020-220, Pelotas, Brazil;Childhood Nutrition Centre, Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, WC1N 1EH, London, UK;MRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, Addenbrookes Hospital, Box 285, Cambridge, CB2 0QQ, UK

关键词: DOHaD;    Prospective studies;    Epidemiology;    Exercise;    Motor activity;   

Others  :  824727
DOI  :  10.1186/1479-5868-9-82

 received in 2011-10-11, accepted in 2012-05-02,  发布年份 2012

【 摘 要 】

Background

The Developmental Origins of Health and Disease hypothesis suggests that intrauterine, infancy and early childhood variables play a key role at programming later health. However, little is known on the programming of behavioral variables, because most studies so far focused on chronic disease-related and human capital outcomes. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the effects of prenatal, infancy and childhood weight and length/height gains on objectively-measured physical activity (PA) in adolescence.

Methods

This is a prospective birth cohort study in Pelotas, Brazil, including 457 adolescents (mean age: 13.3 years) with weight and length/height data at birth, one, three and six months, one and four years of age. PA was measured using a GT1M Actigraph accelerometer, and expressed as (a) minutes per day spent on sedentary, light, moderate, vigorous and very-vigorous activities; (b) total counts per day.

Results

61.3% of the adolescents accumulated 60+ minutes of moderate-to-vigorous PA per day. Weight and length/height trajectories in infancy and childhood were similar between those classified as active or inactive at 13.3 years. However, those classified as inactive were heavier and taller at all ages; differences were statistically significant only in terms of length at three, six and 12 months.

Conclusions

Weight gain in infancy and childhood did not predict variability in adolescent PA, but those active in adolescence showed somewhat smaller average gains in length in infancy. These findings suggest that PA may partially be sensitive to early hormonal programming, or that genetic factors may affect both early growth and later metabolism or predisposition for PA.

【 授权许可】

   
2012 Hallal et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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