Title
Adolescent mothers’ anthropometrics and grandmothers’ schooling predict infant anthropometrics in Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam
Date Issued
01 January 2018
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Publisher(s)
Blackwell Publishing Inc.
Abstract
We investigated intergenerational associations of adolescent mothers’ and grandmothers’ anthropometrics and schooling with adolescent mothers’ offspring's anthropometrics in Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam. We examined birthweight (n = 283), birthweight Z-score (BWZ), conditional growth in weight-for-age Z-score (cWAZ, residuals from a regression of WAZ at last survey round on BWZ, sex, and age), and height-for-age Z-score (HAZ) of children born to older cohort adolescent girls in the Young Lives study. Our key independent variables were adolescent mothers’ body size: HAZ and body-mass-index-for-age Z-score (BMIZ) at age 8, conditional HAZ (cHAZ, residuals from a regression of HAZ at the end of a growth period on prior HAZ, age, and sex), conditional BMIZ growth (cBMIZ, calculated analogously), and grandmaternal BMIZ, HAZ, and schooling. We adjusted for child, maternal, and household characteristics. Adolescent mothers’ cHAZ (ages 8–15) predicted birthweight (β = 130 g, 95% confidence interval (CI) 31–228), BWZ (β = 0.31, CI 0.09–0.53), and cWAZ (β = 0.28, CI 0.04–0.51). Adolescent mothers’ BMIZ at age 8 predicted birthweight (β = 79 g, CI 16–43) and BWZ (β = 0.22, CI 0.08–0.36). Adolescent mothers’ cBMIZ (ages 12–15) predicted child cWAZ and HAZ. Grandmothers’ schooling predicted grandchild birthweight (β = 22 g, CI 1–44) and BWZ (β = 0.05, CI 0.01–0.10).
Start page
86
End page
106
Volume
1416
Issue
1
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Pediatría Geriatría, Gerontología Antropología
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85050202421
PubMed ID
Source
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
ISSN of the container
00778923
Sponsor(s)
This work was supported by grants from the Sack-ler Institute for Nutrition Science Collaborative Initiative Aimed at Using Existing Datasets to Conduct Research on Adolescent Women’s Nutritional Status, the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD, Grant R01 HD070993), and Grand Challenges Canada (Grant 0072-03). We thank Nykia Perez Kibler for her valuable assistance in conducting a large number of literature searches for our review. We also thank attendees at the Sackler grantee meeting November 3–4, 2016 at the Sackler Institute in New York, New York and at the Young Lives Conference on Adolescence, Youth and Gender: Building Knowledge for Change, September 8–9, 2016 at the University of Oxford for valuable comments on our research findings. W.S., E.A., M.E.P., and J.R.B. contributed the conceptualization, data interpretation, writing, and revising of this paper. W.S. conducted data analysis.
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