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Journal of Obesity
Volume 2012, Article ID 457173, 9 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/457173
Research Article
Maternal and Early Childhood Risk Factors for Overweight andObesity among Low-Income Predominantly Black Children at
Age Five Years: A Prospective Cohort Study
Naveed Zafar Janjua,1, 2, 3 Bushra Mahmood,4
M. Aminul Islam,1 and Robert L. Goldenberg5
1Department
of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA
Disease Prevention and Control Services, British Columbia Centre for DiseaseControl, 655 West 12th Avenue,
Vancouver, BC, Canada V5Z 4R4
3 School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z3
4 RTI International, Research TrianglePark, NC 27709, USA
5 Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA
2 Communicable
Correspondence should be addressed to Naveed Zafar Janjua,naveed.janjua@bccdc.ca
Received 27 June 2012; Accepted 27 August 2012
Academic Editor: David Allison
Copyright © 2012 Naveed Zafar Janjua et al. This is an open access article distributed under the CreativeCommons Attribution
License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly
cited.
Objective. To identify maternal and earlychildhood risk factors for obesity and overweight among children at age 5 in the state of
Alabama. Methods. We recruited 740 mothers during early pregnancy from University of Alabama Prenatal Clinics in aprospective
cohort study and followed them throughout pregnancy. We followed their children from birth until 5 years of age. The main
outcome measure was obesity (BMI for age and sex ≥ 95thpercentile) at 5 years of age. We used poisson regression with robust
variance estimation to compute risk ratio (RR). Results. At the 5th year of followup, 71 (9.6%) of the children were obese and 85...
Journal of Obesity
Volume 2012, Article ID 457173, 9 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/457173
Research Article
Maternal and Early Childhood Risk Factors for Overweight andObesity among Low-Income Predominantly Black Children at
Age Five Years: A Prospective Cohort Study
Naveed Zafar Janjua,1, 2, 3 Bushra Mahmood,4
M. Aminul Islam,1 and Robert L. Goldenberg5
1Department
of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA
Disease Prevention and Control Services, British Columbia Centre for DiseaseControl, 655 West 12th Avenue,
Vancouver, BC, Canada V5Z 4R4
3 School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z3
4 RTI International, Research TrianglePark, NC 27709, USA
5 Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA
2 Communicable
Correspondence should be addressed to Naveed Zafar Janjua,naveed.janjua@bccdc.ca
Received 27 June 2012; Accepted 27 August 2012
Academic Editor: David Allison
Copyright © 2012 Naveed Zafar Janjua et al. This is an open access article distributed under the CreativeCommons Attribution
License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly
cited.
Objective. To identify maternal and earlychildhood risk factors for obesity and overweight among children at age 5 in the state of
Alabama. Methods. We recruited 740 mothers during early pregnancy from University of Alabama Prenatal Clinics in aprospective
cohort study and followed them throughout pregnancy. We followed their children from birth until 5 years of age. The main
outcome measure was obesity (BMI for age and sex ≥ 95thpercentile) at 5 years of age. We used poisson regression with robust
variance estimation to compute risk ratio (RR). Results. At the 5th year of followup, 71 (9.6%) of the children were obese and 85...
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