Weight gain in pregnancy and childhood body composition: findings from the Southampton Women's Survey.

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BACKGROUND: Intrauterine life may be a critical period for the programming of later obesity, but there is conflicting evidence about whether pregnancy weight gain is an important determinant of offspring adiposity. OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to examine the relation of pregnancy weight gain with neonatal and childhood body composition. DESIGN: The participants (n = 948) were children born to women in the Southampton Women's Survey who had dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry measurem...

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Authors: Crozier, SR; Inskip, H; Godfrey, K; Cooper, C; Harvey, N

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: American journal of clinical nutrition
• Volume: 91
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 1745-1751
• Publication date: 2010-06-01
• DOI: 10.3945/ajcn.2009.29128
• EISSN: 1938-3207
• ISSN: 0002-9165
• Language: English
• Keywords: Anthropometry; Infant, Newborn; Humans; Southampton Women's Survey Study Group; Weight Gain; Longitudinal Studies; Absorptiometry, Photon; Child; Pregnancy; Cohort Studies; Statistics, Nonparametric; Female; Body Composition