Primal Health Databank: Study
| Entry No: | 1038 |
| Title: | Cesarean birth is not associated with early childhood body mass index. |
| Author(s): | Smithers LG, Mol BW, et al |
| Reference: | Pediatr Obes. 2017 Aug;12 Suppl 1:120-124. doi: 10.1111/ijpo.12180. Epub 2016 Dec 6. |
| Place of Study: | Australia |
| Abstract: | Among mothers who had a previous cesarean, the authors compared anthropometry of 3- to 6-year-old children who were subsequently born by cesarean section versus vaginal birth. This large population-based study involved linking de-identified administrative perinatal and anthropometric data. Children's weight and height were collected at community-based clinics and converted to age- and sex-adjusted z-scores of height-for-age (HFAz), weight-for-age (WFAz) and BMI-for-age (BMIz). The average treatment effect (ATE) of cesarean versus vaginal birth was calculated from augmented inverse probability weighted analyses accounting for a wide range of confounding variables. There was little evidence of an effect of cesarean birth on HFAz (ATE = 0.26 95%CI -0.35, 0.87, n = 3993), WFAz (ATE = 0.35, 95%CI -0.19, 0.89, n = 4817) or BMIz (ATE = 0.11, 95%CI -0.25, 0.46, n = 3909). |
| Keyword(s): | body mass index, caesarean, cesarean |
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