Shanmukha Mukthapuram, Beth Ann Johnson, Cara Slagle, John Erickson, Beena D Kamath-Rayne, Jennifer M Brady
Design and Implementation of a Didactic Curriculum in a Large Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellowship Program: A Single-center Experience
American journal of perinatology
higher maternal preconception body mass index bmi associated lower breastfeeding duration may contribute development poor child eating behaviours dietary intake patterns components nutritional risk higher maternal preconception bmi found associated higher child nutritional risk study aimed determine whether breastfeeding duration mediated association maternal preconception bmi child nutritional risk longitudinal cohort study children ages 18 months 5 years recruited applied research group kids target kids canada primary outcome child nutritional risk using nutristep validated parentreported questionnaire statistical mediation analysis performed assess whether total duration breastfeeding mediated association maternal preconception bmi child nutritional risk study included 4733 children 8611 nutristep observations mean sd maternal preconception bmi 236 44 mean sd breastfeeding duration 124 80 months 1unit higher maternal preconception bmi associated 0081 unit higher nutritional risk 95 ci 0051 0112 p 0001 total effect 001195 ci 0006 0016 p 0001 total effect 1318 95 ci 713 2125 mediated breastfeeding duration total breastfeeding duration showed mediate part association maternal preconception bmi child nutritional risk interventions support breastfeeding higher maternal preconception bmi evaluated potential effect reducing nutritional risk young children