Here's a portion of the abstract. Does anyone have access to the full
article to find out if they compared formula vs breast? There is no
indication of this in the abstract, and as Janice said this was 'formula
time'.
Data were obtained from The National Collaborative Perinatal Project, a
multicenter cohort study of risk factors for cerebral palsy that collected
maternal and infant data at 12 sites strategically located throughout the
U.S.
beginning in 1959. Because that project collected information on tens of
thousands of children from birth up to age seven, the obesity researchers
analyzed the data for their current study.
Michelle Bentley CLE
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_ui
ds=11826195&dopt=Abstract
1: Pediatrics 2002 Feb;109(2):194-9
Infant weight gain and childhood overweight status in a multicenter, cohort
study.
Stettler N, Zemel BS, Kumanyika S, Stallings VA.
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MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE: Overweight status at age 7 years, defined by a body
mass index above the 95th percentile of the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention reference data.
RESULTS: In the 19 397 participants with complete data (69.6%), the
prevalence of overweight status at age 7 years was 5.4%. The rate of weight
gain during the first 4 months of life (as 100 g/month) was associated with
being overweight at age 7 years, after adjustment for several confounding
factors: odds ratio: 1.38; 95% confidence interval: 1.32-1.44. This
association was present in each birth weight quintile, and remained
significant after adjustment for the weight attained at age 1 year (odds
ratio: 1.17; 95% confidence interval: 1.11-1.24).
CONCLUSIONS: A pattern of rapid weight gain during the first 4 months of
life was associated with an increased risk of overweight status at age 7
years, independent of birth weight and weight attained at age 1 year. These
findings may lead to new hypotheses regarding the cause of childhood
obesity, which may contribute to our understanding of this increasing public
health problem in the United States.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Janice Reynolds" <[log in to unmask]>
Nicolas Stettler of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia has released a
study April 7, 2002 finding that obesity patterns for life may be
established as early as at four months of age. A direct link was found
between seven year olds of extreme obesity and babies who had rapid weight
gain during their first four months of life.
...The study didn't seem to investigate what the babies were fed, however,
it looked at data from 19,000 children who were born at term gestation
between 1959 and 1965 in 12 U.S. cities. (The height of formula feeding, I
think?)
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