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Maternal pre-gravid obesity and early childhood respiratory hospitalization: a population-based case-control study.

ABSTRACT: Inflammation in utero is linked to childhood respiratory and infectious complications. Obesity is an increasingly common chronic inflammatory state, yet little is known about its role in childhood respiratory illness. We sought to examine the association between maternal pre-gravid BMI and early childhood respiratory hospitalization. We conducted a population-based case-control study using the Washington State Comprehensive Hospital Abstract Reporting System and linked birth certificate data. Cases were children age 0-5 years, born in Washington state, with a respiratory hospitalization between 2003 and 2008. We identified 15,318 cases, frequency matching each case to two controls by birth year (total 31,060 controls). We used logistic regression to estimate the risk (approximated by odds ratios) of early childhood respiratory hospitalization according to maternal pre-gravid body mass index (BMI) category (underweight, normal, overweight, obese), after adjustment for maternal and infant characteristics. An elevated maternal pre-gravid BMI was associated with increased risk of childhood respiratory hospitalization, with an adjusted odds ratio OR [95 % CI] = 1.08 [1.03-1.14] for overweight mothers (BMI 25-29.9 kg/m(2)), and OR = 1.29 [1.22-1.36] for obese mothers (BMI ? 30 kg/m(2)). An elevated maternal pre-gravid BMI was associated with higher risk of early childhood respiratory hospitalization. Childhood respiratory illness may be an important complication of excess maternal weight that should be shared with expectant mothers.

SUBMITTER: Parsons EC

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3538085 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Maternal pre-gravid obesity and early childhood respiratory hospitalization: a population-based case-control study.

Parsons Elizabeth C EC Patel Kevin K Tran Betty T BT Littman Alyson J AJ

Maternal and child health journal 20130801 6

Inflammation in utero is linked to childhood respiratory and infectious complications. Obesity is an increasingly common chronic inflammatory state, yet little is known about its role in childhood respiratory illness. We sought to examine the association between maternal pre-gravid BMI and early childhood respiratory hospitalization. We conducted a population-based case-control study using the Washington State Comprehensive Hospital Abstract Reporting System and linked birth certificate data. Ca ...[more]

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Project description:BackgroundAlthough previous studies suggest that exposure to traffic-related pollution during childhood increases the risk of childhood overweight or obesity (COWO), the role of early life exposure to fine particulate matter (aerodynamic diameter <2.5 ?m; PM2.5) and its joint effect with the mother’s prepregnancy body mass index (MPBMI) on COWO remain unclear.ObjectivesThe present study was conducted to examine the individual and joint effects of ambient PM2.5 exposures and MPBMI on the risk of COWO.MethodsWe estimated exposures to ambient PM2.5in utero and during the first 2 y of life (F2YL), using data from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) Air Quality System matched to residential address, in 1,446 mother–infant pairs who were recruited at birth from 1998 and followed up prospectively through 2012 at the Boston Medical Center in Massachusetts. We quantified the individual and joint effects of PM2.5 exposure with MPBMI on COWO, defined as the child’s age- and sex-specific BMI z-score ?85th?percentile at the last well-child care visit between 2 and 9 y of age. Additivity was assessed by estimating the reduced excess risk due to interaction.ResultsComparing the highest and lowest quartiles of PM2.5, the adjusted relative risks (RRs) [95% confidence intervals (CIs)] of COWO were 1.3 (95% CI: 1.1, 1.5), 1.2 (95% CI: 1.0, 1.4), 1.2 (95% CI: 1.0, 1.4), 1.3 (95% CI: 1.1, 1.6), 1.3 (95% CI: 1.1, 1.5) and 1.3 (1.1, 1.5) during preconception; the first, second, and third trimesters; the entire period of pregnancy; and F2YL, respectively. Spline regression showed a dose–response relationship between PM2.5 levels and COWO after a threshold near the median exposure (10.46 ?g/m3–10.89 ?g/m3). Compared with their counterparts, children of obese mothers exposed to high levels of PM2.5 had the highest risk of COWO [RR?2.0, relative excess risk due to interaction (RERI) not significant].ConclusionsIn the present study, we observed that early life exposure to PM2.5 may play an important role in the early life origins of COWO and may increase the risk of COWO in children of mothers who were overweight or obese before pregnancy beyond the risk that can be attributed to MPBMI alone. Our findings emphasize the clinical and public health policy relevance of early life PM2.5 exposure. https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP261

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Maternal pre-gravid obesity and early childhood respiratory hospitalization: a population-based case-control study.

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Maternal pre-gravid obesity and early childhood respiratory hospitalization: a population-based case-control study.

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