Birth Weight and Long-Term Overweight Risk: Systematic Review and a Meta-Analysis Including 643902 Persons from 66 Studies and 26 Countries Globally

摘要

BackgroundOverweight is among the major challenging health risk factors. It has been claimed that birth weight, being a critical indicator of prenatal developmental conditions, is related to long-term overweight risk. In order to check this important assumption of developmental and preventive medicine, we performed a systematic review and comprehensive meta-analysis.