Affiliation:
1. Department of Clinical Science, Maternal‐Fetal‐Neonatal Research University of Bergen Bergen Norway
2. Centre for Fertility and Health Norwegian Institute of Public Health Oslo Norway
3. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Haukeland University Hospital Bergen Norway
Abstract
AbstractBackgroundThere is a paucity of data on whether parents' macrosomia (birthweight ≥4500 g) status influences the risk of macrosomia in the offspring. The role of maternal overweight in the generational effect of macrosomia is not known.ObjectiveTo estimate the risk of macrosomia by parental birthweight at term and evaluate if this risk varied with maternal body mass index (BMI, kg/m2) early in pregnancy.MethodsWe used data from the Medical Birth Registry of Norway on all singleton term births (37–42 gestational weeks) during 1967–2017. The primary exposure was parental macrosomia, and the outcome was macrosomia in the second generation. The secondary exposure was maternal BMI. We used binomial regression to calculate relative risk (RR) with a 95% confidence interval. We assessed potential unmeasured confounding and selection bias using a probabilistic bias analysis and performed analyses with and without imputation for variables with missing values.ResultsThe data included 647,957 singleton parent‐offspring trios born at term. The prevalence of macrosomia was 3.2% (n = 41,396) in the parental generation and 4.0% (n = 25,673) in the offspring generation. Macrosomia in parents was associated with an increased risk of macrosomia in offspring, with the RR for both parents were born macrosomic being 6.53 (95% confidence interval [CI] 5.31, 8.05), only mother macrosomic 3.37 (95% CI 3.17, 3.57) and only father macrosomic RR 2.22 (95% CI 2.12, 2.33). These risks increased by maternal BMI in early pregnancy: if both parents were born macrosomic, 17% of infants were macrosomic among mothers with normal BMI. If both parents were macrosomic and the mothers were obese, 31% of offspring were macrosomic. Macrosomia‐related adverse outcomes did not differ with parental macrosomia status.ConclusionsParents' weight at birth and maternal BMI appear to be strongly associated with macrosomia in the offspring delivered at term gestations.
Subject
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health,Epidemiology
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