title: Maternal eating disorder and infant diet. A latent class analysis based on the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study (MoBa).
abstract: Knowledge of infant diet and feeding practices among children of mothers with eating disorders is essential to promote healthy eating in these children. This study compared the dietary patterns of 6-month-old children of mothers with anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder, and eating disorder not otherwise specified-purging subtype, to the diet of children of mothers with no eating disorders (reference group). The study was based on 53,879 mothers in the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study (MoBa). Latent class analysis (LCA) was used to identify discrete latent classes of infant diet based on the mothers' responses to questions about 16 food items. LCA identified five classes, characterized by primarily homemade vegetarian food (4% of infants), homemade traditional food (8%), commercial cereals (35%), commercial jarred baby food (39%), and a mix of all food groups (11%). The association between latent dietary classes and maternal eating disorders were estimated by multinomial logistic regression. Infants of mothers with bulimia nervosa had a lower probability of being in the homemade traditional food class compared to the commercial jarred baby food class, than the referent (O.R. 0.59; 95% CI 0.36-0.99). Infants of mothers with binge eating disorder had a lower probability of being in the homemade vegetarian class compared to the commercial jarred baby food class (O.R. 0.77; 95% CI 0.60-0.99), but only before adjusting for relevant confounders. Anorexia nervosa and eating disorder not otherwise specified-purging subtype were not statistically significantly associated with any of the dietary classes. These results suggest that maternal eating disorders may to some extent influence the child's diet at 6 months; however, the extent to which these differences influence child health and development remains an area for further inquiry.
authors.affiliation: Division of Mental Health, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, P.O. Box 4404 Nydalen, 0403 Oslo, Norway. Electronic address: leila.torgersen@fhi.no.
authors.forename: Leila
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Torgersen
authors.affiliation: Division of Mental Health, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, P.O. Box 4404 Nydalen, 0403 Oslo, Norway.
authors.forename: Eivind
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Ystrom
authors.affiliation: Departments of Epidemiology and Nutrition, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, CB#7435, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
authors.forename: Anna Maria
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Siega-Riz
authors.affiliation: Division of Mental Health, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, P.O. Box 4404 Nydalen, 0403 Oslo, Norway.
authors.forename: Cecilie Knoph
authors.initials: CK
authors.lastname: Berg
authors.affiliation: Departments of Psychiatry and Nutrition, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
authors.forename: Stephanie C
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Zerwas
authors.affiliation: Division of Mental Health, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, P.O. Box 4404 Nydalen, 0403 Oslo, Norway; Institute of Psychiatry, University of Oslo, Postboks 1039 Blinderen, 0315 Oslo, Norway.
authors.forename: Ted
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Reichborn-Kjennerud
authors.affiliation: Departments of Psychiatry and Nutrition, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
authors.forename: Cynthia M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Bulik
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000856:Anorexia Nervosa; D056912:Binge-Eating Disorder; D052018:Bulimia Nervosa; D015331:Cohort Studies; D004032:Diet; D005247:Feeding Behavior; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007225:Infant Food / Q000145:classification; D016015:Logistic Models; D008297:Male; D009035:Mothers; D009664:Norway; D016017:Odds Ratio; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
keywords: Child feeding; Dietary patterns; Eating disorder; Latent class analysis; MoBa; Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study