Tuesday, 16 November, 2021
Childhood dietary inflammation and obesity
This project will examine predictors of childhood dietary inflammation (using the recently developed child dietary inflammatory index (C-DII)) and its relationship with childhood weight status. Using existing datasets from the ALPHABET consortium (~20,000 child-mother pairs) we will assess prospective associations between C-DII scores and childhood weight status during early, mid- and late childhood in each of the 7 ALPHABET cohorts, followed by random effects meta-analysis. Next, we will examine associations between potential predictors of the C-DII (familial, socioeconomic, diet, lifestyle behaviours) and risk of having a more pro-inflammatory childhood diet. Led by Dr Catherine Phillips this project is funded by the Biostime Institute of Nutrition and Care, Geneva.