Body Composition Growth Patterns in Early Infancy: A Latent Class Trajectory Analysis of the Ethiopian iABC Birth Cohort.
Gregers Stig AndersenRasmus WibaekPernille KaestelTsinuel GirmaBitiya AdmassuMubarek AberaDorte VistisenMarit Eika JørgensenKim F MichaelsenHenrik FriisJonathan C K WellsPublished in: Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) (2018)
We identified distinct patterns of delayed, catch-up, and accelerated fat growth in early infancy. This variability is not detected in regular anthropometric assessment and could be a mechanism linking early growth with later obesity and cardiometabolic risk.