Hasumi Tomita, Noriyuki Iwama, Hirotaka Hamada, Rie Kudo, Kazuma Tagami, Natsumi Kumagai, Naoto Sato, Seiya Izumi, Kasumi Sakurai, Zen Watanabe, Mami Ishikuro, Taku Obara, Nozomi Tatsuta, Tetsuro Hoshiai, Hirohito Metoki, Masatoshi Saito, Junichi Sugawara, Shinichi Kuriyama, Takahiro Arima, Nobuo Yaegashi
This study aimed to evaluate the association between parental and infant birth weights in Japan. In total, 37,504 pregnant Japanese women and their partners were included in this birth cohort study. A multinomial logistic regression model was used to evaluate the associations of parental birth weights with small-for-gestational-age (SGA) or large-for-gestational-age (LGA) infants. Associations between parental birth weight and low birth weight (LBW) infants or macrosomia were also examined, and linear associations between parental birth weight and SGA or LGA were found...
January 22, 2024: Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease