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DOES OVERNUTRITION OR OBESITY DURING THE FIRST YEAR AFFECT WEIGHT AT AGE FOUR?
Author(s) -
SVEGER T.
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
acta pædiatrica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1651-2227
pISSN - 0803-5253
DOI - 10.1111/j.1651-2227.1978.tb16355.x
Subject(s) - overnutrition , medicine , overweight , obesity , pediatrics , prospective cohort study , affect (linguistics) , philosophy , linguistics
. 226 of 243 infants who took part in a prospective study of nutrition and weight during the first year of life were reviewed at age 4 years. 23 of 243 infants (9%) were obese on one or more controls the first year, and 4 of 226 (2%) at age 4 years. Only 3 of 23 infants remained obese. The weight and length of the children obsese at 0–1 year of age were significantly increased at age 4 years. Overnutrition occurred during the first year in 26 infants and the number of obese infants in this group was significantly increased at age 7–12 months and of overweight children during the first two years of life. At age 4, however, none of them were either obese or overweight.