Sex-specific Associations of Maternal Birthweight with Offspring Birthweight in the Omega Study

Sex-specific Associations of Maternal Birthweight with Offspring Birthweight in the Omega Study

Abstract Purpose We investigated nonlinear and offspring-sex specific associations of maternal birthweight (BW) with offspring BW among participants of the Omega study, a pregnancy cohort. Methods Maternal BW was modeled as a continuous variable, linear spline, and binary variable indicating low bir...

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Veröffentlicht in:Annals of epidemiology 2017-05, Vol.27 (5), p.308-314.e4
Hauptverfasser: Ncube, Collette N, Gavin, Amelia R, Williams, Michelle A, Qiu, Chunfang, Sorensen, Tanya K, Enquobahrie, Daniel A
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Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Adult
Birth Weight - physiology
Birthweight
Body Mass Index
Cohort Studies
Female
Humans
Infant
Infant, Low Birth Weight
Infant, Newborn
Internal Medicine
Interviews as Topic
Low birthweight
Male
Mothers
Pregnancy
Pregnancy Outcome
Sex
Sex Factors
Surveys and Questionnaires
Washington
Weight gain
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Zusammenfassung:Abstract Purpose We investigated nonlinear and offspring-sex specific associations of maternal birthweight (BW) with offspring BW among participants of the Omega study, a pregnancy cohort. Methods Maternal BW was modeled as a continuous variable, linear spline, and binary variable indicating low birthweight (LBW) (
ISSN:1047-2797
1873-2585
DOI:10.1016/j.annepidem.2017.04.006