Breastfeeding and Complementary Feeding in Relation to BMI and Overweight

University Hospital Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg

Status: Completed

Conditions: Child Overweight

Treatments: Other: Danish National Birth Cohort

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03334760

UHBispebjergFrederiksberg

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study examines the associations between different types of infant feeding and BMI and overweight in childhood. The study is based on the Danish National Birth Cohort, established in 1996.

Full description

The objective of the study is to examine whether duration of breastfeeding, timing of introduction of complementary food and protein intake at 18 months are associated with BMI and overweight at ages 7 and 11 years, independent of BMI during infancy.

Children participating in the Danish National Birth Cohort were followed-up at ages 7 and 11years. Information on infant feeding, protein intake at 18 months, Ponderal Index at birth, child BMI (5 months, 12 months, 7 and 11 years) and several parental factors was available.

Path analysis was used to assess the direct and indirect effects of infant feeding on BMI z-scores at ages 7 (n= 36,481) and 11y (n=22,047). Logistic regression analyses were used to examine associations with overweight.

Enrollment: 100,418 patients

Sex: Female

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• The women were invited at their first antenatal visit at the general practitioner.Women were included if they intended to carry the pregnancy to term, had a permanent address in Denmark, and spoke Danish well enough to participate in telephone interviews.

Exclusion criteria

• Women who were not pregnant.