A new Pediatric Obesity study reveals how excess weight at age 3 years was associated with a higher risk of being overweight or obese at age 15 years in a study of adolescents in Japan.
Excess weight at age 3 years was associated with a higher risk of being overweight or obese at age 15 years in a study of adolescents in Japan.
In the Pediatric Obesity study of 1,581 mother-child pairs, pre-pregnancy overweight/obesity in mothers was also a strong predictor of overweight/obesity at age 15 years in children.
After adjustments, being overweight or obese at age 3 years was linked with a more than 4.2-times higher risk of overweight/obesity at age 15 years, and overweight/obesity in mothers was linked with a more than 2.4-times higher risk. Investigators did not find an association between birth weight and overweight/obesity during adolescence.
“Because family members often share a common lifestyle, interventions for parents and children may be necessary to prevent obesity in adolescents,” said first author Satomi Yoshida, PhD, of Kyoto University.
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Link to Study: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ijpo.12597
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