Fetal overgrowth and weight trajectories during infancy and adiposity in early childhood

• Published in: Pediatric research Vol. 95; no. 5; pp. 1372 - 1378
• Main Authors: Tao, Min-Yi, Liu, Xin, Chen, Zi-Lin, Yang, Meng-Nan, Xu, Ya-Jie, He, Hua, Fang, Fang, Chen, Qian, Mao, Xuan-Xia, Zhang, Jun, Ouyang, Fengxiu, Shen, Xiu-Hua, Li, Fei, Luo, Zhong-Cheng, Shen, Xiaoming, Huang, Hong, Sun, Kun, Wang, Weiye, Xu, Weiping, Huang, Yin, Zhang, Jinsong, Yan, Chonghuai, Shen, Lisong, Bao, Yixiao, Tian, Ying, Chen, Weiwei, Zhang, Huijuan, Tong, Chuanliang, Xu, Jian, Zhang, Lin, Zhang, Yiwen, Jiang, Fang, Yu, Xiaodan, Yu, Guangjun, Chen, Jinjin, Zhang, Yu, Li, Xiaotian, Cheng, Haidong, Zhang, Qinying, Duan, Tao, Hua, Jing, Peng, Hua
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Nature Publishing Group 01.04.2024
• Subjects: Body fat; Body mass index; Childrens health; Disease prevention; Gestational age; Obesity; Overweight

Large-for-gestational age (LGA), a marker of fetal overgrowth, has been linked to obesity in adulthood. Little is known about how infancy growth trajectories affect adiposity in early childhood in LGA. In the Shanghai Birth Cohort, we followed up 259 LGA (birth weight >90th percentile) and 1673 a...