Birth weight and long-term overweight risk: systematic review and a meta-analysis including 643,902 persons from 66 studies and 26 countries globally.
Birth weight and long-term overweight risk: systematic review and a meta-analysis including 643,902 persons from 66 studies and 26 countries globally.
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10.1371/journal.pone.0047776
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发表时间:
2012
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影响因子:
3.7
通讯作者:
Plagemann A
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作者:
Schellong K;Schulz S;Harder T;Plagemann A
Overweight is among the major challenging health risk factors. It has been claimed that birth weight, being a critical indicator of prenatal developmental conditions, is related to long-term overweight risk. In order to check this important assumption of developmental and preventive medicine, we performed a systematic review and comprehensive meta-analysis. Relevant studies published up to January 2011 that investigated the relation between birth weight and later risk of overweight were identified through literature searches using MEDLINE and EMBASE. For meta-analysis, 66 studies from 26 countries and five continents were identified to be eligible, including 643,902 persons aged 1 to 75 years. We constructed random-effects and fixed-effects models, performed subgroup-analyses, influence-analyses, assessed heterogeneity and publication bias, performed meta-regression analysis as well as analysis of confounder adjusted data. Meta-regression revealed a linear positive relationship between birth weight and later overweight risk (p<0.001). Low birth weight (<2,500 g) was found to be followed by a decreased risk of overweight (odds ratio (OR) = 0.67; 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.59–0.76). High birth weight (>4,000 g) was associated with increased risk of overweight (OR = 1.66; 95% CI 1.55–1.77). Results did not change significantly by using normal birth weight (2,500–4,000 g) as reference category (OR = 0.73, 95% CI 0.63–0.84, and OR = 1.60, 95% CI 1.45–1.77, respectively). Subgroup- and influence-analyses revealed no indication for bias/confounding. Adjusted estimates indicate a doubling of long-term overweight risk in high as compared to normal birth weight subjects (OR = 1.96, 95% CI 1.43–2.67). Findings demonstrate that low birth weight is followed by a decreased long-term risk of overweight, while high birth weight predisposes for later overweight. Preventing in-utero overnutrition, e.g., by avoiding maternal overnutrition, overweight and/or diabetes during pregnancy, might therefore be a promising strategy of genuine overweight prevention, globally.
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影响因子:
9.8
作者:
Catalano PM;Hauguel-De Mouzon S
通讯作者:
Hauguel-De Mouzon S
影响因子:
8
作者:
Boney, CM;Verma, A;Vohr, BR
通讯作者:
Vohr, BR
影响因子:
4.5
作者:
Apfelbacher, Christian J.;Loerbroks, Adrian;Kraemer, Ursula
通讯作者:
Kraemer, Ursula
DOI:
10.1056/nejmoa1104119
发表时间:
2011-09-08
期刊:
The New England journal of medicine
影响因子:
--
作者:
Boggs DA;Rosenberg L;Cozier YC;Wise LA;Coogan PF;Ruiz-Narvaez EA;Palmer JR
通讯作者:
Palmer JR
影响因子:
7.7
作者:
Chen, AM;Pennell, ML;Longnecker, MP
通讯作者:
Longnecker, MP