Bottle use at 24 months predicted body-mass index ≥95th percentile at age 5.5 years.
An early intervention for prevention of obesity is badly needed. Investigators reviewed longitudinal data from a national birth cohort of 6750 children born in 2001 to determine if bottle use at 24 months was associated with obesity (BMI >95th percentile) at age 5.5 years. Overall, 22% of the children were bottle users at 24 months (18.9% at bedtime and 10.5% during the day), and 17% were obese at 5.5 years.
Obesity prevalence was higher in children who used bottles at 24 months than in children who did not use them at 24 months (23% vs. 16%). When adjusted for multiple confounding variables, risk for obesity was 1.3 times higher for prolonged bottle users (95% confidence interval, 1.05–1.68) than for non–bottle users at 24 months. No signif…
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