Open AccessCaesarean delivery is associated with higher risk of overweight in the offspring: within-family analysis in the SUN cohort
Author(s) -
Nerea MartínCalvo,
Miguel Ángel MartínezGonzález,
Gloria Pérez Segura,
Jorge E. Chavarro,
Silvia Carlos,
Alfredo Gea
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of epidemiology and community health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.692
H-Index - 170
eISSN - 1470-2738
pISSN - 0143-005X
DOI - 10.1136/jech-2019-213724
Subject(s) - overweight , medicine , offspring , body mass index , obesity , pregnancy , confounding , cohort , demography , logistic regression , caesarean section , cohort study , childhood obesity , cross sectional study , obstetrics , pediatrics , pathology , sociology , biology , genetics
Most studies assessing the association between caesarean delivery (CD) and childhood overweight/obesity have failed to account for important confounders, such as maternal prepregnancy body mass index (BMI) or the indication of the CD. Furthermore, within-family analyses have reported contradictory results. We aimed at evaluating the association between CD and offspring's risk of overweight/obesity while adjusting for important confounders and accounting for correlations between siblings.