Abstract Publications from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children covering
diet, growth, and obesity development during childhood are reviewed. Diet was assessed by …

Maturation of long-running birth cohort studies has fostered a life course approach to adult
health, function, and disease and related to conceptual frameworks. Using broad concepts …

Background Socioeconomic inequalities in childhood body-mass index (BMI) have been
documented in high-income countries; however, uncertainty exists with regard to how they …

Childhood growth is of interest in medical research concerned with determinants and
consequences of variation from healthy growth and development. Linear spline multilevel …

Background Cardiovascular disease (CVD) disproportionately affects Black adults in the
United States. This is increasingly acknowledged to be due to inequitable distribution of …

Importance Evidence that breastfeeding reduces child obesity risk and lowers blood
pressure (BP) is based on potentially confounded observational studies. Objective To …

A range of important early-life predictors of later obesity have been identified. Children of
lower socioeconomic position (SEP) have a steeper weight gain trajectory from birth with a …

Background: There is increasing emphasis in medical research on modelling growth across
the life course and identifying factors associated with growth. Here, we demonstrate …

The association between socioeconomic status and child cognitive development, and the
positive impact of interventions aimed at optimizing cognitive performance, are well …

Background Poorer socioeconomic circumstances have been linked with worse outcomes in
cystic fibrosis. We assessed whether a relation exists between social deprivation and …