ArticleAnnals of nutrition & metabolism2017
Impact of Early Infant Growth, Duration of Breastfeeding and Maternal Factors on Total Body Fat Mass and Visceral Fat at 3 and 6 Months of Age.
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- Adipose development is consistent across hunter-gatherers and diverges from western references.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Article
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- Human Milk Macronutrients and Bioactive Molecules and Development of Regional Fat Depots in Western Australian Infants during the First 12 Months of Lactation.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Metabolomics in early life and the association with body composition at age 2 years.Pediatric obesity · 2022Article
- Anthropometrics and fat mass, but not fat-free mass, are compromised in infants requiring parenteral nutrition after neonatal intestinal surgery.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2022Article
- A Comparison of Mother's Milk and the Neonatal Urine Metabolome: A Unique Fingerprinting for Different Nutritional Phenotypes.Metabolites · 2022Article
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- Development of Visceral and Subcutaneous-Abdominal Adipose Tissue in Breastfed Infants during First Year of Lactation.Nutrients · 2021Article
- Early weight gain trajectories and body composition in infancy in infants born very preterm.Pediatric obesity · 2021Article
- Exclusivity of breastfeeding and body composition: learnings from the Baby-bod study.International breastfeeding journal · 2021Observational
- Determinants of Infant Adiposity across the First 6 Months of Life: Evidence from the Baby-bod study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2021Article
- Associations of breastfeeding or formula feeding with infant anthropometry and body composition at 6 months.Maternal & child nutrition · 2021Article
- Human milk immunomodulatory proteins are related to development of infant body composition during the first year of lactation.Pediatric research · 2021Observational
- WHO Child Growth Standards in context: The Baby-bod Project - Observational study in Tasmania.BMJ paediatrics open · 2021Observational
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Abstract
backgroundAccelerated gain in fat mass in the first months of life is considered to be a risk factor for adult diseases, given the tracking of infancy fat mass into adulthood. Our objective was to assess the influence of early growth, type of feeding and maternal variables on fat mass in early life.
methodsIn 300 healthy term infants, we longitudinally measured fat mass percentage (FM%) by air-displacement-plethysmography at 1, 3, and 6 months and abdominal visceral and subcutaneous fat measured by ultrasound at 3 and 6 months.
resultsBoth gain in FM% and weight-for-length in the first 3 months were positively associated with FM% at 6 months of age and visceral fat at 3 months of age. Gain in FM% and weight-for-length between 3 and 6 months were both positively associated with visceral fat at 6 months. Breastfeeding duration associated positively with subcutaneous fat but not with visceral fat at 3 and 6 months. Maternal characteristics did not associate with FM% or visceral fat at 3 or 6 months.
conclusionHigher gain in FM% or in weight-for-length in the first postnatal months leads not only to higher FM% but also more to accumulation of visceral fat. Exclusive breastfeeding appears to promote subcutaneous but not visceral fat in the first 6 months.
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