Gestational weight gain in normal weight women and offspring cardio-metabolic risk factors at 20 years of age

• Published in: International Journal of Obesity Vol. 39; no. 4; pp. 671 - 676
• Main Authors: Hrolfsdottir, L, Rytter, D, Olsen, S F, Bech, B H, Maslova, E, Henriksen, T B, Halldorsson, T I
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 01.04.2015; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: 692/308/174; 692/499; 692/699/2743/393; 692/699/75; 692/700/2814; Adolescent; Adult; Adult Children; Age; Anthropometry; Body Mass Index; Body size; Body weight; Body weight gain; Cardiovascular diseases; Cardiovascular Diseases - epidemiology; Cardiovascular Diseases - genetics; Cardiovascular Diseases - physiopathology; Confidence intervals; Denmark - epidemiology; Epidemiology; Female; Females; Follow-Up Studies; Food science; Gender aspects; Gender differences; Glucose metabolism; Guidelines as Topic; Health aspects; Health Promotion and Disease Prevention; Homeostasis; Hormones; Hospitals; Humans; Infant; Infant, Newborn; Insulin; Insulin Resistance; Internal Medicine; Leptin; Lifestyles; Lipid metabolism; Lipids; Male; Maternal Nutritional Physiological Phenomena - genetics; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Metabolic Diseases; Metabolic Syndrome - epidemiology; Metabolic Syndrome - genetics; Metabolic Syndrome - physiopathology; Metabolism; Midwifery; Mothers; Newborn infants; Nutrition research; Obesity; Offspring; original-article; Overweight; Physical exercise; Physiological aspects; Pregnancy; Pregnancy complications; Prenatal Care; Public Health; Questionnaires; Regression analysis; Regression models; Risk analysis; Risk Factors; Sex differences; Statistical analysis; Surveys and Questionnaires; Weight gain; Weight Gain - physiology; Women; Womens health; Denmark; United States > US; Iceland; Aarhus Denmark

Objective: Limited knowledge exists on the long-term implications of maternal gestational weight gain (GWG) on offspring health. Our objective was to examine whether high GWG in normal weight women is associated with adult offspring cardio-metabolic risk factors. Methods: We used a cohort of 308 Dan...