Birth weight and subsequent risk of obesity: a systematic review and meta-analysis

This report describes the association between birth weight (BW) and obesity. Screening of 478 citations from five electronic databases resulted in the inclusion of 33 studies, most of medium quality. The meta-analysis included 20 of these published studies. The 13 remaining articles did not provide...

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Published in:Obesity reviews 2011-07, Vol.12 (7), p.525-542
Main Authors: Yu, Z.B, Han, S.P, Zhu, G.Z, Zhu, C, Wang, X.J, Cao, X.G, Guo, X.R
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescence
Adolescent
Adolescents
adulthood
Analysis
Birth Weight
Child
Child, Preschool
childhood
Children
cohort studies
confidence interval
Confidence Intervals
developmental stages
Diseases
experimental design
Grading
High schools
Humans
Infant, Low Birth Weight
Infant, Newborn
Meta analysis
Obesity
Obesity - epidemiology
Odds Ratio
prenatal experience
preschool children
Reviews
risk
Risk Factors
risk reduction
school children
screening
sensitivity analysis
systematic review
Weight
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Summary:This report describes the association between birth weight (BW) and obesity. Screening of 478 citations from five electronic databases resulted in the inclusion of 33 studies, most of medium quality. The meta-analysis included 20 of these published studies. The 13 remaining articles did not provide sufficient dichotomous data and were systematically reviewed, revealing results consistent with the meta-analysis. Our results revealed that high BW (>4000 g) was associated with increased risk of obesity (odds ratio [OR], 2.07; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.91-2.24) compared with subjects with BW ≤ 4000 g. Low BW (
ISSN:1467-7881
1467-789X
DOI:10.1111/j.1467-789X.2011.00867.x