PMID- 35691007 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20221014 LR - 20221014 IS - 1590-1262 (Electronic) IS - 1124-4909 (Linking) VI - 27 IP - 7 DP - 2022 Oct TI - The relation between prenatal stress, overweight and obesity in children diagnosed according to BMI and percentage fat tissue. PG - 2759-2773 LID - 10.1007/s40519-022-01416-4 [doi] AB - BACKGROUND: One of the environmental factors contributing to abnormal weight changes in children may be maternal exposure to adverse environmental factors during pregnancy, which in previous studies led to inconclusive results showing both overweight or obesity and underweight in children. The aim of the study was to assess the influence of prenatal stress on the BMI status and cut-off points for the percentage of fat content. METHODS: The cohort study included 254 girls and 276 boys. Information on prenatal stress was collected retrospectively with a questionnaire on objective adverse events completed by a parent/guardian of a 6-12-year-old child. We examined the body weight of children and performed an electrical bioimpedance analysis of their body composition. We assessed the BMI status according to the International Obesity Task Force (IOTF) criterion and on the basis of body fat according to McCarthy criterion. RESULTS: The results of our study show that the prenatal stress was related to increased risk of overweight (OR 2.14, 95% CI: 1.25-3.65) diagnosed on the basis of body fat cut-off points, but not when the BMI was a diagnostic criterion (OR 1.03, 95% CI: 0.58-1.83). CONCLUSION: The method of diagnosis based on the fat content appears to be an indicator of the occurrence of abnormalities in body composition due to prenatal stress more sensitive than that based on the BMI. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: Level III evidence obtained from well-designed cohort or case-control analytic studies. CI - (c) 2022. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG. FAU - Bryl, Ewa AU - Bryl E AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-4874-459X AD - Institute of Human Biology and Evolution, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Uniwersytetu Poznanskiego 6, 60-614, Poznan, Poland. ewa.bryl@amu.edu.pl. FAU - Hanc, Tomasz AU - Hanc T AD - Institute of Human Biology and Evolution, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Uniwersytetu Poznanskiego 6, 60-614, Poznan, Poland. FAU - Szczesniewska, Paula AU - Szczesniewska P AD - Institute of Human Biology and Evolution, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Uniwersytetu Poznanskiego 6, 60-614, Poznan, Poland. FAU - Dutkiewicz, Agata AU - Dutkiewicz A AD - Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, 60-572, Poznan, Poland. FAU - Dmitrzak-Weglarz, Monika AU - Dmitrzak-Weglarz M AD - Psychiatric Genetics Unit, Department of Psychiatry, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, 60-806, Poznan, Poland. FAU - Slopien, Agnieszka AU - Slopien A AD - Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, 60-572, Poznan, Poland. LA - eng GR - 2016/21/B/NZ5/00492/Narodowe Centrum Nauki/ PT - Journal Article DEP - 20220612 PL - Germany TA - Eat Weight Disord JT - Eating and weight disorders : EWD JID - 9707113 SB - IM MH - Adipose Tissue MH - Body Mass Index MH - Child MH - Cohort Studies MH - Female MH - Humans MH - Male MH - *Overweight/epidemiology MH - *Pediatric Obesity MH - Prevalence MH - Retrospective Studies OTO - NOTNLM OT - BMI OT - Children OT - Fat tissue OT - Overweight OT - Prenatal stress EDAT- 2022/06/13 06:00 MHDA- 2022/10/15 06:00 CRDT- 2022/06/12 13:55 PHST- 2021/08/31 00:00 [received] PHST- 2022/05/03 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2022/06/13 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2022/10/15 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2022/06/12 13:55 [entrez] AID - 10.1007/s40519-022-01416-4 [pii] AID - 10.1007/s40519-022-01416-4 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Eat Weight Disord. 2022 Oct;27(7):2759-2773. doi: 10.1007/s40519-022-01416-4. Epub 2022 Jun 12.