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Infant Feeding and Ethnic Differences in Body Mass Index during Childhood: A Prospective Study

This study investigated ethnic differences in childhood body mass index (BMI) in children from Dutch and Turkish descent and the role of infant feeding factors (breastfeeding duration, milk feeding frequency, as well as the timing, frequency and variety of complementary feeding (CF)). We used data f...

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Autores principales: Sirkka, Outi, Vrijkotte, Tanja, van Houtum, Lieke, Abrahamse-Berkeveld, Marieke, Halberstadt, Jutka, Olthof, Margreet R., Seidell, Jacob C.
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Publicado: MDPI 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8308235/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34371801
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu13072291
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author Sirkka, Outi
Vrijkotte, Tanja
van Houtum, Lieke
Abrahamse-Berkeveld, Marieke
Halberstadt, Jutka
Olthof, Margreet R.
Seidell, Jacob C.
author_facet Sirkka, Outi
Vrijkotte, Tanja
van Houtum, Lieke
Abrahamse-Berkeveld, Marieke
Halberstadt, Jutka
Olthof, Margreet R.
Seidell, Jacob C.
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description This study investigated ethnic differences in childhood body mass index (BMI) in children from Dutch and Turkish descent and the role of infant feeding factors (breastfeeding duration, milk feeding frequency, as well as the timing, frequency and variety of complementary feeding (CF)). We used data from 244 children (116 Dutch and 128 Turkish) participating in a prospective study in the Netherlands. BMI was measured at 2, 3 and 5 years and standard deviation scores (sds) were derived using WHO references. Using linear mixed regression analyses, we examined ethnic differences in BMI-sds between 2 and 5 years, and the role of infant feeding in separate models including milk or CF factors, or both (full model). Relative to Dutch children, Turkish children had higher BMI-sds at age 3 (mean difference: 0.26; 95%CI: 0.04, 0.48) and 5 (0.63; 0.39, 0.88), but not at 2 years (0.08; −0.16, 0.31). Ethnic differences in BMI-sds were somewhat attenuated by CF factors at age 3 (0.16; −0.07, 0.40) and 5 years (0.50; 0.24, 0.77), whereas milk feeding had a minor impact. Of all factors, only CF variety was associated with BMI-sds in the full model. CF factors, particularly CF variety, explain a small fraction of the BMI-sds differences between Dutch and Turkish children. The role of CF variety on childhood BMI requires further investigation.
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spelling pubmed-83082352021-07-25 Infant Feeding and Ethnic Differences in Body Mass Index during Childhood: A Prospective Study Sirkka, Outi Vrijkotte, Tanja van Houtum, Lieke Abrahamse-Berkeveld, Marieke Halberstadt, Jutka Olthof, Margreet R. Seidell, Jacob C. Nutrients Article This study investigated ethnic differences in childhood body mass index (BMI) in children from Dutch and Turkish descent and the role of infant feeding factors (breastfeeding duration, milk feeding frequency, as well as the timing, frequency and variety of complementary feeding (CF)). We used data from 244 children (116 Dutch and 128 Turkish) participating in a prospective study in the Netherlands. BMI was measured at 2, 3 and 5 years and standard deviation scores (sds) were derived using WHO references. Using linear mixed regression analyses, we examined ethnic differences in BMI-sds between 2 and 5 years, and the role of infant feeding in separate models including milk or CF factors, or both (full model). Relative to Dutch children, Turkish children had higher BMI-sds at age 3 (mean difference: 0.26; 95%CI: 0.04, 0.48) and 5 (0.63; 0.39, 0.88), but not at 2 years (0.08; −0.16, 0.31). Ethnic differences in BMI-sds were somewhat attenuated by CF factors at age 3 (0.16; −0.07, 0.40) and 5 years (0.50; 0.24, 0.77), whereas milk feeding had a minor impact. Of all factors, only CF variety was associated with BMI-sds in the full model. CF factors, particularly CF variety, explain a small fraction of the BMI-sds differences between Dutch and Turkish children. The role of CF variety on childhood BMI requires further investigation. MDPI 2021-07-01 /pmc/articles/PMC8308235/ /pubmed/34371801 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu13072291 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Sirkka, Outi
Vrijkotte, Tanja
van Houtum, Lieke
Abrahamse-Berkeveld, Marieke
Halberstadt, Jutka
Olthof, Margreet R.
Seidell, Jacob C.
Infant Feeding and Ethnic Differences in Body Mass Index during Childhood: A Prospective Study
title Infant Feeding and Ethnic Differences in Body Mass Index during Childhood: A Prospective Study
title_full Infant Feeding and Ethnic Differences in Body Mass Index during Childhood: A Prospective Study
title_fullStr Infant Feeding and Ethnic Differences in Body Mass Index during Childhood: A Prospective Study
title_full_unstemmed Infant Feeding and Ethnic Differences in Body Mass Index during Childhood: A Prospective Study
title_short Infant Feeding and Ethnic Differences in Body Mass Index during Childhood: A Prospective Study
title_sort infant feeding and ethnic differences in body mass index during childhood: a prospective study
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8308235/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34371801
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu13072291
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