Biopsychosocial predictors of rapid weight gain from birth to 6 months
Authors' conclusion
Identifying proclivity towards obesogenic feeding practices and providing support to reduce these behaviours may enhance childhood obesity prevention efforts.
Study context
- Population
- Pregnant women (assessed in third trimester) and their infants, followed to 6 months
- Participants
- 299 mother–infant pairs
- Outcome
- Rapid weight gain (RWG): change in weight-for-age z scores from birth to 6 months >0.67 SD
- Follow-up
- Birth to 6 months
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
RWG (change in weight-for-age z scores >0.67 SD, birth to 6 months)
Obesogenic feeding practices predicted greater likelihood of rapid weight gain (RWG) (β), independent of other predictors and covariates
0.30
Indirect effect of prenatal psychobiological risk (PPBR) on RWG via obesogenic feeding practices, the only intervening mechanism with a significant indirect effect
0.05
b; SE 0.04; 95% CI 0.002–0.15; β 0.06
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Original publication
Biopsychosocial predictors of rapid weight gain from birth to 6 months. Pediatr Obes. Published 29 August 2024. doi:10.
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