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Manios, Yannis; Papamichael, Maria Michelle; Mourouti, Niki; Argyropoulou, Matzourana; Iotova, Violeta; Usheva, Natalya; Dimova, Roumyana; Cardon, Greet; Valve, Päivi; Rurik, Imre; Antal, Emese; Liatis, Stavros; Makrilakis, Konstantinos; Moreno, Luis; Moschonis, George
Nutrition (Burbank, Los Angeles County, Calif.), 10/2023, Volume: 114Journal Article
•Across the globe, childhood overweight/obesity (OW/OB) is a serious health problem.•We compared factors from prenatal to mid-childhood associated with prospective BMI deterioration.•Parental OW/OB and country economic classification by Gross National Income were associated with higher odds of children's prospective BMI deterioration.•Public health initiatives targeting childhood obesity should prioritize European countries at high risk. This study aimed to evaluate all known risk factors, from perinatal to adolescence and identify those predominantly related with prospective BMI deterioration. Prospective data analysis from the European Feel4Diabetes-study involving 12,211 children from six countries. Details on perinatal and sociodemographic characteristics were collected by parental self-reported questionnaires. Children’s anthropometric data were measured by research personnel. Associations between risk factors and children’s BMI deterioration (i.e increase) from baseline (mean age 8.2 ± 0.98 years) to the 2-year follow-up (10.3 ± 1.0 years) were explored by applying logistic regression analyses. Univariate analysis revealed that all known risk factors for early overweight/obesity development, remained dominant in prospective BMI deterioration. When multivariate analysis was applied including additional variables such as parents’ current BMI status, family socio-demographic characteristics and country economic classification based on Gross National Income, most perinatal risk factors were no longer significant. Multivariate analysis revealed that pre-pregnancy maternal overweight/obesity (OR, 95%CI: 2.71, 1.67-4.38), early introduction of solid foods (2.54, 1.21-5.31), parental current BMI status (3.53, 2.17-5.72) and country economic classification (low income: 4.67, 2.20-9.93; under austerity measures: 6.78, 3.18-14.48) were the only parameters associated with higher odds for children’s BMI deterioration from the study baseline to 2-year follow-up after adjusting for children’s gender. The most predominant risk factors influencing children’s prospective BMI deterioration were parental BMI and country economic classification as compared to perinatal. These findings should guide public health initiatives aiming to tackle the childhood obesity epidemic and social inequalities on a European level.
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