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A 1-category decrease in the mother-offspring diet quality trajectory from preconception to mid-childhood was associated with higher DXA percentage body fat and BMI z-score at age 8-9 years, after adjustment for maternal pre-pregnancy BMI, education, age at birth, and parity.
Effect size0.08SD per 1-category decrease in diet trajectory (for both %body fat and BMI z-score)
CI95% CI 0.01, 0.15 for %body fat; 95% CI 0.00, 0.16 for BMI z-score
Follow-up8 years
ComparatorChildren in the next-higher diet quality trajectory group (5-group ordinal: poor, poor-medium, medium, medium-better, best)
Effect summarydecline; 0.08SD per 1-category decrease in diet trajectory (for both %body fat and BMI z-score); CI: 95% CI 0.01, 0.15 for %body fat; 95% CI 0.00, 0.16 for BMI z-score

Connected entities

Interventions
diet quality trajectory
Conditions
Adiposity
Outcomes
DXA percentage body fat
Populations
Children

Source

PMC8960403
Longitudinal dietary trajectories from preconception to mid-childhood in women and children in the Southampton Women’s Survey and their relation to offspring adiposity: a group-based trajectory modelling approach
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