Hui-Ju Tsai1,2,3, Guoying Wang3, Xiumei Hong3, Tsung-Chieh Yao4,5,6, Yuelong Ji3, Sally Radovick7,8,9, Hongkai Ji10, Tina L Cheng3,11, Xiaobin Wang3,11. 1. 1 Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Institute of Population Health Sciences, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan, Taiwan. 2. 2 Allergy and Clinical Immunology Research Centre, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan. 3. 3 Center on Early Life Origins of Disease, Department of Population, Family, and Reproductive Health, and. 4. 4 Division of Allergy, Asthma, and Rheumatology, Department of Pediatrics, and. 5. 5 Chang Gung Immunology Consortium, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Taoyuan, Taiwan. 6. 6 Community Medicine Research Center, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Keelung, Keelung, Taiwan. 7. 7 Clinical and Translational Research, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway Township, New Jersey. 8. 8 Bristol-Myers Squibb Children's Hospital, New Brunswick, New Jersey. 9. 9 Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences, Child Health Institute of New Jersey-Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey; and. 10. 10 Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland. 11. 11 Division of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
Abstract
RATIONALE: The prevalence of childhood asthma has been increasing worldwide in parallel with childhood obesity. OBJECTIVES: We investigated whether there is a temporal relationship between early life weight gain (reflecting growth velocity) and early life body mass index (BMI) attained status (reflecting accumulative weight) with future risk of asthma in the Boston Birth Cohort. METHODS: This report includes 1,928 children from the Boston Birth Cohort with a mean age of 7.8 years (standard deviation, 3.3 yr), enrolled at birth and followed prospectively. Asthma was defined using physician diagnosis code (International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification code 493.xx) in children 2 years and older. We categorized the children by their weight gain trajectory on the basis of changes in z-scores: slow (less than -0.67), on track (-0.67 to 0.67), rapid (0.67-1.28), and extremely rapid (>1.28); and by their BMI attained status (underweight, normal weight, and overweight) during the first 4, 12, and 24 months. Poisson regression models with robust variance estimation were applied to examine the relationship between early life weight gain/attained BMI and asthma. RESULTS: During the first 4 months of life, 37% had on-track weight grain, 22% had slow weight gain, 15% had rapid weight gain, and 26% had extremely rapid weight gain. At 4 months, 61% were normal weight, 7% were underweight, and 32% were overweight. In adjusted analyses, extremely rapid early life weight gain during the first 4 and 24 months of life were each associated with increased risks of asthma (risk ratio, 1.34 for extremely rapid weight gain at 4 months; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.06-1.70; risk ratio, 1.32 for extremely rapid weight gain at 24 months; 95% CI, 1.00-1.75) Similarly, overweight at 4, 12, and 24 months were each associated with an increased risk of asthma. Analyses that further adjusted for birthweight or preterm birth showed similar findings. CONCLUSIONS: In this predominantly urban U.S. low-income minority birth cohort, excessive early life weight gain and overweight status were both associated with an increased risk of asthma in childhood.
RATIONALE: The prevalence of childhood asthma has been increasing worldwide in parallel with childhood obesity. OBJECTIVES: We investigated whether there is a temporal relationship between early life weight gain (reflecting growth velocity) and early life body mass index (BMI) attained status (reflecting accumulative weight) with future risk of asthma in the Boston Birth Cohort. METHODS: This report includes 1,928 children from the Boston Birth Cohort with a mean age of 7.8 years (standard deviation, 3.3 yr), enrolled at birth and followed prospectively. Asthma was defined using physician diagnosis code (International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification code 493.xx) in children 2 years and older. We categorized the children by their weight gain trajectory on the basis of changes in z-scores: slow (less than -0.67), on track (-0.67 to 0.67), rapid (0.67-1.28), and extremely rapid (>1.28); and by their BMI attained status (underweight, normal weight, and overweight) during the first 4, 12, and 24 months. Poisson regression models with robust variance estimation were applied to examine the relationship between early life weight gain/attained BMI and asthma. RESULTS: During the first 4 months of life, 37% had on-track weight grain, 22% had slow weight gain, 15% had rapid weight gain, and 26% had extremely rapid weight gain. At 4 months, 61% were normal weight, 7% were underweight, and 32% were overweight. In adjusted analyses, extremely rapid early life weight gain during the first 4 and 24 months of life were each associated with increased risks of asthma (risk ratio, 1.34 for extremely rapid weight gain at 4 months; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.06-1.70; risk ratio, 1.32 for extremely rapid weight gain at 24 months; 95% CI, 1.00-1.75) Similarly, overweight at 4, 12, and 24 months were each associated with an increased risk of asthma. Analyses that further adjusted for birthweight or preterm birth showed similar findings. CONCLUSIONS: In this predominantly urban U.S. low-income minority birth cohort, excessive early life weight gain and overweight status were both associated with an increased risk of asthma in childhood.
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asthma; prospective birth cohort; weight gain
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