Interrelationships among age at adiposity rebound, BMI during childhood, and BMI after age 14 years in an electronic health record database

• Published in: Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) Vol. 30; no. 1; p. 201
• Main Authors: Freedman, David S, Goodwin-Davies, Amy J, Kompaniyets, Lyudmyla, Lange, Samantha J, Goodman, Alyson B, Phan, Thao-Ly Tam, Rao, Suchitra, Eneli, Ihuoma, Forrest, Christopher B
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.01.2022
• Subjects: Adiposity; Adolescent; Body Mass Index; Child; Child, Preschool; Databases, Factual; Electronic Health Records; Humans; Longitudinal Studies; Obesity

This study compared the importance of age at adiposity rebound versus childhood BMI to subsequent BMI levels in a longitudinal analysis. From the electronic health records of 4.35 million children, a total of 12,228 children were selected who were examined at least once each year between ages 2 and...