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Maternal birth weight and BMI mediate the transgenerational effect of grandmaternal BMI on grandchild’s birth weight

Maternal birth weight and BMI mediate the transgenerational effect of grandmaternal BMI on grandchild’s birth weight
Maternal birth weight and BMI mediate the transgenerational effect of grandmaternal BMI on grandchild’s birth weight

Objective

The aims of this study are to examine the potential association between grandmaternal BMI and grandchild’s birth weight (BW) and whether maternal BW and BMI mediate this association.

Methods

Data of 209 grandmother-mother pairs and 355 grandchildren from the Isle of Wight birth cohort in the UK were analyzed using path analysis.

Results

An indirect effect of grandmaternal BMI on increasing grandchild’s BW was mediated by maternal BW and BMI at age 18 years (indirect effects: β = 2.3 g/unit increase in grandmaternal BMI via maternal BW and β = 4.4 g via maternal BMI; P = 0.04). These two mediating effects of maternal BW and BMI confounded one another. Grandmaternal smoking during pregnancy had an indirect effect on decreasing grandchild’s BW, dependent on maternal smoking during pregnancy and BW (indirect effects: β = −36.1 g compared with nonsmoking grandmothers via maternal smoking during pregnancy and β = −27.2 g via maternal BW; P = 0.005). Neither direct effect between grandmaternal BMI and grandchild’s BW nor that between grandmaternal smoking during pregnancy and grandchild’s BW was statistically significant.

Conclusions

Larger grandmaternal BMI indirectly increased grandchild’s BW via maternal BW and BMI. Grandmaternal smoking during pregnancy indirectly reduced grandchild’s BW via maternal smoking during pregnancy and BW.

1930-7381
647-654
Shen, Yan
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Shen, Yan, Zhang, Hongmei, Jiang, Yu, Mzayek, Fawaz, Arshad, Hasan and Karmaus, Wilfried (2020) Maternal birth weight and BMI mediate the transgenerational effect of grandmaternal BMI on grandchild’s birth weight. Obesity, 28 (3), 647-654. (doi:10.1002/oby.22680).

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Abstract

Objective

The aims of this study are to examine the potential association between grandmaternal BMI and grandchild’s birth weight (BW) and whether maternal BW and BMI mediate this association.

Methods

Data of 209 grandmother-mother pairs and 355 grandchildren from the Isle of Wight birth cohort in the UK were analyzed using path analysis.

Results

An indirect effect of grandmaternal BMI on increasing grandchild’s BW was mediated by maternal BW and BMI at age 18 years (indirect effects: β = 2.3 g/unit increase in grandmaternal BMI via maternal BW and β = 4.4 g via maternal BMI; P = 0.04). These two mediating effects of maternal BW and BMI confounded one another. Grandmaternal smoking during pregnancy had an indirect effect on decreasing grandchild’s BW, dependent on maternal smoking during pregnancy and BW (indirect effects: β = −36.1 g compared with nonsmoking grandmothers via maternal smoking during pregnancy and β = −27.2 g via maternal BW; P = 0.005). Neither direct effect between grandmaternal BMI and grandchild’s BW nor that between grandmaternal smoking during pregnancy and grandchild’s BW was statistically significant.

Conclusions

Larger grandmaternal BMI indirectly increased grandchild’s BW via maternal BW and BMI. Grandmaternal smoking during pregnancy indirectly reduced grandchild’s BW via maternal smoking during pregnancy and BW.

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Accepted/In Press date: 26 September 2019
e-pub ahead of print date: 3 February 2020
Published date: 1 March 2020
Additional Information: Funding Information: agencies: This work was supported by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (grant 1R01AI091905)?and?National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (grant?R01HL132321). Publisher Copyright: © 2020 The Obesity Society

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Local EPrints ID: 438024
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/438024
ISSN: 1930-7381
PURE UUID: 7ddedc1e-7971-4156-a3bd-d2f804182ad2

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Date deposited: 26 Feb 2020 17:31
Last modified: 17 Mar 2024 05:21

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Author: Yan Shen
Author: Hongmei Zhang
Author: Yu Jiang
Author: Fawaz Mzayek
Author: Hasan Arshad
Author: Wilfried Karmaus

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