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

Objectives Explore associations between maternal and neonatal outcomes and maternal
age, with particular reference to adolescent women. Design Population-based cohort study …

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

Weight, height and body mass index (BMI) growth trajectories have been associated with
several chronic diseases in later life. Our aim was to describe a method to model individual …

In this review, we considered how disparities in obesity emerge between birth, when socially
disadvantaged infants tend to be small, and later in childhood, when socially disadvantaged …

The African pygmy phenotype stems from genetic foundations and is considered to be the
product of a disturbance in the growth hormone–insulin-like growth factor (GH–IGF) axis …

Tobacco and alcohol use among mothers is associated with numerous adverse
consequences for affected offspring, including poor growth and development. This study …

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's Healthy Birth, Growth and Development
knowledge integration project aims to improve the overall health and well‐being of children …

Aim This birth cohort study investigated longitudinal infant growth and associated factors in a
multiethnic population living in a low‐resource district surrounding the town of Paarl in South …

Background Childhood growth is a cornerstone of pediatric research. Statistical models
need to consider individual trajectories to adequately describe growth outcomes …