A bio-psycho-social model of weight development in infancy

克里斯蒂安的博士研究重点是探索婴儿时期体重发育的遗传、社会和行为风险因素。她使用双子座研究的数据来更好地理解社会经济、行为和遗传因素是如何相互联系和相互作用的，从而从生命的一开始就影响体重的发育。在她的博士学位中，Kristiane将探索婴儿喂养方法、社会经济地位和遗传倾向如何相互影响并相互作用，以影响婴儿时期的快速体重发育。她将利用这些洞察力，与Best Beginings移动应用‘Baby Buddy’合作，提出一种新颖的数字干预措施，以支持父母和婴儿在出生前两年的健康体重发展。

Kristiane's PhD research focuses on exploring genetic, social, and behavioural risk factors for weight development across infancy. She uses data from the Gemini Twin Study to better understand how socioeconomic, behavioural, and genetic factors are related to and interact with one another to shape weight development right from the very start of life. Across her PhD, Kristiane will explore how infant feeding methods, socioeconomic standing, and genetic propensity contribute to and interact with one another to influence rapid weight development in infancy. She will use these insights to inform a novel digital intervention to support parents and healthy infant weight development in the first two years of life, in partnership with Best Beginnings Mobile App 'Baby Buddy'.