Relationships of maternal body mass index and plasma biomarkers with childhood body mass index and adiposity at 6 years; the Children of SCOPE study
Relationships of maternal body mass index and plasma biomarkers with childhood body mass index and adiposity at 6 years; the Children of SCOPE study
Background: Maternal obesity has been implicated in the origins of childhood obesity through a sub-optimal environment in-utero.
Objective: We examined relationships of maternal early pregnancy body mass index (BMI), overweight/obesity and plasma biomarkers of obesity, inflammation, insulin resistance and placental function with measures of childhood BMI and adiposity.
Methods: BMI z-score, sum of skinfold thicknesses (SST), body fat percentage (BFP, by bioelectrical impedance), waist, arm and hip circumferences were measured in 1,173 6-year-old children of nulliparous pregnant women in the SCOPE study, New Zealand. Relationships of maternal early pregnancy (15 weeks’ gestation) BMI and biomarkers with these childhood anthropometric measures were assessed by linear regression, with appropriate adjustment.
Results: 28.1% of mothers were overweight and 10.1% obese; compared with normal weight mothers, the BFP of their children were 5.3% higher [0.16 SD (95% CI 0.04 to 0.29) p=0.01] and 7.8% higher [0.27 (0.08 to 0.47) p=0.006] with comparable values for BMI z-score, arm, waist and hip circumferences. Early pregnancy maternal BMI and plasma placental growth factor (PlGF) were associated with higher child’s SST, BMI z-score, hip circumference and BFP. None of the metabolic or inflammatory maternal biomarkers were associated with childhood obesity.
Conclusion: In this contemporary large prospective cohort study with extensive maternal/childhood phenotyping and a high prevalence of maternal overweight/obesity, we found independent relationships of maternal early pregnancy BMI with childhood BMI and adiposity, similar associations were observed with PlGF which may imply a role for placenta function in the developmental programming of childhood obesity risk.
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Wall, Clare R.
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McCowan, Lesley M.E.
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Poston, Lucilla
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Godfrey, Keith
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Mitchell, Edwin A.
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Dalrymple, Kathryn, Begum, Shahina, Thompson, John M.D., Cutfield, Wayne, Huang, Ying, Seed, Paul T., Shelling, Andrew N., Wall, Clare R., North, Robyn, McCowan, Lesley M.E., Poston, Lucilla, Godfrey, Keith and Mitchell, Edwin A.
(2019)
Relationships of maternal body mass index and plasma biomarkers with childhood body mass index and adiposity at 6 years; the Children of SCOPE study.
Pediatric Obesity, [e12537].
(doi:10.1111/ijpo.12537).
Abstract
Background: Maternal obesity has been implicated in the origins of childhood obesity through a sub-optimal environment in-utero.
Objective: We examined relationships of maternal early pregnancy body mass index (BMI), overweight/obesity and plasma biomarkers of obesity, inflammation, insulin resistance and placental function with measures of childhood BMI and adiposity.
Methods: BMI z-score, sum of skinfold thicknesses (SST), body fat percentage (BFP, by bioelectrical impedance), waist, arm and hip circumferences were measured in 1,173 6-year-old children of nulliparous pregnant women in the SCOPE study, New Zealand. Relationships of maternal early pregnancy (15 weeks’ gestation) BMI and biomarkers with these childhood anthropometric measures were assessed by linear regression, with appropriate adjustment.
Results: 28.1% of mothers were overweight and 10.1% obese; compared with normal weight mothers, the BFP of their children were 5.3% higher [0.16 SD (95% CI 0.04 to 0.29) p=0.01] and 7.8% higher [0.27 (0.08 to 0.47) p=0.006] with comparable values for BMI z-score, arm, waist and hip circumferences. Early pregnancy maternal BMI and plasma placental growth factor (PlGF) were associated with higher child’s SST, BMI z-score, hip circumference and BFP. None of the metabolic or inflammatory maternal biomarkers were associated with childhood obesity.
Conclusion: In this contemporary large prospective cohort study with extensive maternal/childhood phenotyping and a high prevalence of maternal overweight/obesity, we found independent relationships of maternal early pregnancy BMI with childhood BMI and adiposity, similar associations were observed with PlGF which may imply a role for placenta function in the developmental programming of childhood obesity risk.
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Shahina Begum
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John M.D. Thompson
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Ying Huang
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Paul T. Seed
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Andrew N. Shelling
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Clare R. Wall
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Robyn North
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Lesley M.E. McCowan
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Lucilla Poston
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Edwin A. Mitchell
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