Public Health Nutrition | |
Rapid infant weight gain and early childhood obesity in low-income Latinos and non-Latinos | |
Rachel Johnson Thornton1  Sarah Polk1  Laura Caulfield1  Alvaro Muñoz1  | |
关键词: Weight-for-length Z-score; BMI; Latino; Childhood obesity; | |
DOI : 10.1017/S1368980015003201 | |
学科分类:卫生学 | |
来源: Cambridge University Press | |
【 摘 要 】
AbstractObjectiveTo examine the growth of infants and toddlers in a population that is both under-represented in the literature and at high risk for childhood obesity.DesignWeight and height measurements were extracted from all visits for a sample of 0–4-year-old, low-income, Latino and non-Latino patients of an urban, academic general paediatric practice. Early growth was characterized as change in weight-for-length Z-score (WLZ) from birth to 3 years. The outcome of interest was BMI Z-score (BMIZ) at age 3 years. Mixed-effects models and multivariate linear regression were used to analyse the association between infant growth and early childhood obesity.SettingBaltimore, MD, USA.SubjectsLatino (n 210) and non-Latino (n 253) children, born in 2003–2004. ResultsAn increase in WLZ from birth to 2 years was observed for this cohort as well as a high incidence of overweight and obesity. WLZ at birth and change in WLZ from birth to 2 years were both significantly and positively associated with increases in BMIZ at 3 years of age. The effect of the change in WLZ was twofold higher than the effect of WLZ at birth.ConclusionsAn increase in WLZ during the first 2 years of life increased the risk of early childhood obesity. Latino children had a higher incidence of early childhood obesity than non-Latino children in this low-income sample.
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