Associations between obesity and cognition in the pre-school years

Martin, Anne and Booth, Josephine N. and Young, David and Revie, Matthew and Boyter, Anne C. and Johnston, Blair and Tomporowski, Phillip D. and Reilly, John J. (2015) Associations between obesity and cognition in the pre-school years. Obesity. ISSN 1930-7381

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    Abstract

    The objective was to test the hypothesis that obesity is associated with impaired cognitive outcomes in the pre-school years. Associations were examined between weight status at age 3-5 years and cognitive performance at age 5 years. Cognitive outcome measures were tests of Pattern Construction (visuo-spatial skills), Naming Vocabulary (expressive language skills), and Picture Similarity (reasoning skills). The sample was the UK Millennium Cohort Study (MCS; n 12,349 participants). Boys with obesity at 3 years had significantly lower performance in Pattern Construction at age 5 years compared to those of a healthy weight, even after controlling for confounders (β= -0.029, p=0.03). Controlling for confounders, boys who developed obesity between the age of 3 and 5 years had lower scores in Pattern Construction (β=-0.03, p=0.03). ’Growing out’ of obesity had a beneficial impact on Picture Similarity performance in girls (β=0.03, p=0.04). Obesity in the pre-school years was associated with poorer outcomes for some cognitive measures in this study. Stronger relationships between obesity and cognition or educational attainment may emerge later in childhood.

    Author(s):Martin, Anne ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1614-6525, Booth, Josephine N., Young, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3652-0513, Revie, Matthew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0130-8109, Boyter, Anne C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6088-5571, Johnston, Blair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9785-6822, Tomporowski, Phillip D. and Reilly, John J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6165-5471
    Item type:Article
    ID code:54825
    Notes:This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Martin, A., Booth, J. N., Young, D., Revie, M., Boyter, A. C., Johnston, B., ... Reilly, J. J. (2015). Associations between obesity and cognition in the pre-school years. Obesity, which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/oby.21329. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving.
    Keywords:millennium cohort study, obesity, cognitive performance, early childhood, pre-school children, Child Health. Child health services, Personal health and hygiene, including exercise, nutrition , Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health
    Subjects:Medicine > Pediatrics > Child Health. Child health services
    Medicine > Public aspects of medicine > Personal health and hygiene, including exercise, nutrition
    Department:Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > School of Psychological Science and Health > Physical Activity for Health
    Faculty of Science > Mathematics and Statistics
    Strathclyde Business School > Management Science
    Faculty of Science > Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences
    Depositing user: Pure Administrator
    Date deposited:11 Dec 2015 01:44
    Last modified:28 Jun 2019 02:25
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    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/54825
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