Infant Overweight as Early Marker of Childhood Overweight in Brazil

Anne Jardim-Botelho; Ricardo Queiroz Gurgel; Roberta Petrucci; Claudimary Bispo dos Santos; Adrianne Bispo Pereira; Samara De oliveira Xavier; Laís Desidério de Souza; Luis Cuevas

doi:10.1093/tropej/fmt076

Infant Overweight as Early Marker of Childhood Overweight in Brazil

Anne Jardim-Botelho
, Ricardo Queiroz Gurgel
, Roberta Petrucci
, Claudimary Bispo dos Santos
, Adrianne Bispo Pereira
, Samara De oliveira Xavier
, Laís Desidério de Souza
, Luis Cuevas

Clinical Sciences

Universidade Federal de Sergipe
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine

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Abstract

Objective: To investigate infant overweight and rapid weight gain as predictors of overweight and adiposity in childhood.

Methods: Prospective, longitudinal birth cohort following 153 low-income Brazilian children. Weight, length, middle upper arm circumference (MUAC) and triceps skinfold thickness (TSF) were measured on enrolment and 6-monthly for 18 months. Anthropometric z-scores were calculated.

Results: Infants with overweight were >5 times likely to have MUAC z-score >2, >6 times likely to have weight-for-height/length z-score >2 and >3 times likely to have TSF z-score >2 during childhood. Children with more than two overweight episodes were 27.7 [95% confidence interval (CI) 8.1–87.9] times more likely to have MUAC z-score >2 and 13.8 (95% CI 4.4–43.9) times more likely to have TSF z-score >2 in childhood. Rapid weight gain increased 10.7 (95% CI 2.3–50.0) times the risk of childhood overweight.

Conclusions: Infant overweight and rapid weight gain predict overweight and adiposity in childhood among low-income children.

Original language	English
Article number	fmt076
Pages (from-to)	47-52
Number of pages	6
Journal	Journal of Tropical Pediatrics
Volume	60
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/tropej/fmt076
Publication status	Published - 1 Feb 2014

Keywords

Adiposity
Childhood overweight
Cohort
Infancy
Weight gain

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