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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.

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: 21 Sep 2017 12:58
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URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/54825
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