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Growth trajectories in the children of mothers with eating disorders: a longitudinal study
OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to examine longitudinal patterns of growth trajectories in children of women with eating disorders (ED): anorexia nervosa (AN) and bulimia nervosa (BN). DESIGN: Prospective longitudinal birth cohort; Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC). SETTI...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3975767/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24674996 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2013-004453 |
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author | Easter, Abigail Howe, Laura D Tilling, Kate Schmidt, Ulrike Treasure, Janet Micali, Nadia |
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description | OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to examine longitudinal patterns of growth trajectories in children of women with eating disorders (ED): anorexia nervosa (AN) and bulimia nervosa (BN). DESIGN: Prospective longitudinal birth cohort; Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC). SETTING: South West England, UK. PARTICIPANTS: The sample consisted of women and their children (n=10 190) from ALSPAC. Patterns of growth among children of women reporting a history of AN (n=137), BN (n=165), both AN and BN (n=68) and other psychiatric disorders (n=920) were compared with an unexposed group of children (n=8900). MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Height and weight data, from birth to 10 years, were extracted from health visitor records, parental report from questionnaires and clinic attendances. Growth trajectories were analysed using mixed-effects models and constructed separately for male and female children. RESULTS: Between birth and 10 years, male children of women with BN were taller than children in the unexposed group. Male children of women with a history of AN and BN, and female children of women with AN, were shorter throughout childhood. Between the ages of 2 and 5, higher body mass index (BMI) was observed in male children in all maternal ED groups. Conversely, female children of women with AN had a BMI of −0.35 kg/m(2) lower at 2 years compared with the unexposed group, with catch-up by age 10. CONCLUSIONS: Early childhood growth has been found to predict weight gain in adolescence and adulthood, and may be a risk factor for the development of an ED. These findings therefore have public health implications in relation to the prevention of weight-related and eating-related disorders later in life. |
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spelling | pubmed-39757672014-04-07 Growth trajectories in the children of mothers with eating disorders: a longitudinal study Easter, Abigail Howe, Laura D Tilling, Kate Schmidt, Ulrike Treasure, Janet Micali, Nadia BMJ Open Epidemiology OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to examine longitudinal patterns of growth trajectories in children of women with eating disorders (ED): anorexia nervosa (AN) and bulimia nervosa (BN). DESIGN: Prospective longitudinal birth cohort; Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC). SETTING: South West England, UK. PARTICIPANTS: The sample consisted of women and their children (n=10 190) from ALSPAC. Patterns of growth among children of women reporting a history of AN (n=137), BN (n=165), both AN and BN (n=68) and other psychiatric disorders (n=920) were compared with an unexposed group of children (n=8900). MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Height and weight data, from birth to 10 years, were extracted from health visitor records, parental report from questionnaires and clinic attendances. Growth trajectories were analysed using mixed-effects models and constructed separately for male and female children. RESULTS: Between birth and 10 years, male children of women with BN were taller than children in the unexposed group. Male children of women with a history of AN and BN, and female children of women with AN, were shorter throughout childhood. Between the ages of 2 and 5, higher body mass index (BMI) was observed in male children in all maternal ED groups. Conversely, female children of women with AN had a BMI of −0.35 kg/m(2) lower at 2 years compared with the unexposed group, with catch-up by age 10. CONCLUSIONS: Early childhood growth has been found to predict weight gain in adolescence and adulthood, and may be a risk factor for the development of an ED. These findings therefore have public health implications in relation to the prevention of weight-related and eating-related disorders later in life. BMJ Publishing Group 2014-03-27 /pmc/articles/PMC3975767/ /pubmed/24674996 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2013-004453 Text en Published by the BMJ Publishing Group Limited. For permission to use (where not already granted under a licence) please go to http://group.bmj.com/group/rights-licensing/permissions This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 3.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ |
spellingShingle | Epidemiology Easter, Abigail Howe, Laura D Tilling, Kate Schmidt, Ulrike Treasure, Janet Micali, Nadia Growth trajectories in the children of mothers with eating disorders: a longitudinal study |
title | Growth trajectories in the children of mothers with eating disorders: a longitudinal study |
title_full | Growth trajectories in the children of mothers with eating disorders: a longitudinal study |
title_fullStr | Growth trajectories in the children of mothers with eating disorders: a longitudinal study |
title_full_unstemmed | Growth trajectories in the children of mothers with eating disorders: a longitudinal study |
title_short | Growth trajectories in the children of mothers with eating disorders: a longitudinal study |
title_sort | growth trajectories in the children of mothers with eating disorders: a longitudinal study |
topic | Epidemiology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3975767/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24674996 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2013-004453 |
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