TY - JOUR
T1 - Maternal predictors of infant beverage consumption
T2 - Results from the Nurture cohort study
AU - Tovar, Alison
AU - Vadiveloo, Maya
AU - Ostbye, Truls
AU - Benjamin-Neelon, Sara E.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA (grant number R01DK094841).
Publisher Copyright:
© The Authors 2019.
PY - 2019/10/1
Y1 - 2019/10/1
N2 - The goal of the present study was to estimate prevalence and maternal risk factors for infant beverage consumption.Design: Observational birth cohort.Setting: Central North Carolina, USA.Participants: Mothers 20-36 weeks pregnant were surveyed every 3 months through their infant's first year (n 666) on their sociodemographics and infant's consumption frequency of 100 % fruit and vegetable juices and sugar-sweetened-beverages (SSB). Repeated-measure models, using a compound symmetry covariance structure, were used to assess the association of sociodemographic and maternal predictors with introducing juice and SSB separately and explored interaction terms with time to determine how the effects of the predictors change over time.Results: On average, mothers were 28 years old, 72 % were non-Hispanic Black and 59 % were low-income. We found time by race, income, education, maternal age and breast-feeding duration interactions for both juice and SSB consumption. At approximately 6-7 months of age through 12 months of age, being Black, having a lower income (≤US 20 000 v. >US 20 000 per year) and education (less than high-school degree v. high-school degree or higher), being younger (<26 years v. ≥26 years) and breast-feeding for fewer than 26 weeks were each associated with introduction of both juice and SSB consumption.Conclusions: Future efforts are needed to raise awareness on the importance of national recommendations of limiting juice and SSB for infants, together with decreasing disparities in unhealthy beverage intake early in life.
AB - The goal of the present study was to estimate prevalence and maternal risk factors for infant beverage consumption.Design: Observational birth cohort.Setting: Central North Carolina, USA.Participants: Mothers 20-36 weeks pregnant were surveyed every 3 months through their infant's first year (n 666) on their sociodemographics and infant's consumption frequency of 100 % fruit and vegetable juices and sugar-sweetened-beverages (SSB). Repeated-measure models, using a compound symmetry covariance structure, were used to assess the association of sociodemographic and maternal predictors with introducing juice and SSB separately and explored interaction terms with time to determine how the effects of the predictors change over time.Results: On average, mothers were 28 years old, 72 % were non-Hispanic Black and 59 % were low-income. We found time by race, income, education, maternal age and breast-feeding duration interactions for both juice and SSB consumption. At approximately 6-7 months of age through 12 months of age, being Black, having a lower income (≤US 20 000 v. >US 20 000 per year) and education (less than high-school degree v. high-school degree or higher), being younger (<26 years v. ≥26 years) and breast-feeding for fewer than 26 weeks were each associated with introduction of both juice and SSB consumption.Conclusions: Future efforts are needed to raise awareness on the importance of national recommendations of limiting juice and SSB for infants, together with decreasing disparities in unhealthy beverage intake early in life.
KW - Infant
KW - Juice
KW - Maternal predictors
KW - Sugar-sweetened beverage
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U2 - 10.1017/S1368980019000934
DO - 10.1017/S1368980019000934
M3 - Article
C2 - 31106724
AN - SCOPUS:85071783731
VL - 22
SP - 2591
EP - 2597
JO - Public Health Nutrition
JF - Public Health Nutrition
SN - 1368-9800
IS - 14
ER -