Category: Epidemiology
Poster Session III
Among 4,149 assessed children (median age: 11.4 years), 13.1% (n=545) had a LGA birthweight, 8.0% (n=331) had a SGA birthweight, and 78.9% (n=3,273) had an AGA birthweight. More than one-quarter (28.6%, n=1,172) of children were overweight or obese at 10-14 years, which was higher among those who had been LGA (33.8%) and lower among those who had been SGA (23.5%) compared to those who had been AGA at birth (28.3%) (overall p=0.004) (Table 1). Children who had been born LGA were at higher risk of being overweight or obese at 10-14 years compared with those who had been born AGA (aRR: 1.26; 95% CI: 1.01 to 1.58), as well as having a waist circumference >85th percentile (aRR: 1.31; 95% CI: 1.01 to 1.69) (Table 2). SGA birth was not associated with adiposity outcomes.
Conclusion:
Children without in utero exposure to GDM who were born LGA were at increased risk of being overweight or obese at 10 to 14 years of age.
Kartik Kailas Venkatesh, MD, PhD (he/him/his)
Assistant Professor
The Ohio State University
Columbus, Ohio, United States
Patrick Catalano, MD
Professor
Tufts Medical Center, Mother Infant Research Institute
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Jiquiang Wu, MSc
The Ohio State University
Columbus, Ohio, United States
Mark B. Landon, MD
Richard L. Meiling Professor and Chair, Obstetrics and Gynecology
The Ohio State University
Columbus, Ohio, United States
Denise Sholtens, PhD
Northwestern University
Chicago, Illinois, United States
William Lowe, MD
Northwestern University
Chicago, Illinois, United States
William A. Grobman, MD, MBA
Vice Chair, Clinical Operations, Maternal Fetal Medicine
The Ohio State University
Columbus, Ohio, United States