Stunting at 24 Months Is Not Related to Incidence of Overweight through Young Adulthood in an Urban South African Birth Cohort

The Journal of Nutrition
Sara K HansonAryeh D Stein

Abstract

The role that childhood stunting plays in the development of overweight and obesity later in life is not well understood, particularly in adolescence and young adulthood, because most studies have only followed up through midchildhood. The objective of this study was to examine the relation between stunting and age-specific patterns of overweight and obesity incidence from early childhood to young adulthood in the context of a country in the process of the nutrition transition while these children were growing up. We analyzed data from 895 participants in the Birth-to-Twenty Plus Cohort (Bt20+), an urban South African birth cohort initiated in 1990. Anthropometric data were collected at multiple ages and participants were included if they provided height at age 24 mo and ≥1 measure of body mass index [BMI; weight (kg)/height (m)2] in each of the following time periods: 4-8 y, 11-12 y, 13-15 y, 16-18 y, and 22-24 y. We defined stunting at age 24 mo as height-for-age z score <2 and overweight as BMI z score (BMIZ) >1 in childhood (4-8 y) and adolescence (11-12 y, 13-15 y, and 16-18 y) and BMI ≥25 in young adulthood (22-24 y). We compared BMI, BMIZ, and the prevalence of overweight by stunting status, stratified by sex. Our sample...Continue Reading

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