Maternal Body Mass Index and Risk of Autism Spectrum Disorders in Offspring: A Meta-analysis.
Controversial results of the association between maternal body mass index (BMI) and risk of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in offspring were reported among several studies. This meta-analysis was conducted to estimate the overall association between maternal BMI and risk of ASD in offspring. PubMed, EMBASE, Web of Science, and the Cochrane Library were searched until January 2016. Cohort and case-control studies addressing the association between maternal BMI and risk of ASD in offspring were included. We used random-effect models to estimate the summary relative risks (RRs), we also performed a dose-response meta-analysis to estimate the trend from the correlated log RR estimates across levels of BMI quantitatively. Totally, 6 cohort studies and 1 case-control study involving 8,403 cases and 509,167 participants were included for analysis. The summary RR (95% confidence interval) for ASD in offspring in relation to maternal underweight, overweight, and obesity vs. normal weight during pre-pregnancy or pregnancy, was 1.07 (0.93, 1.23), 1.28 (1.19, 1.36) and 1.36 (1.03, 1.78), respectively. A linear dose-response relationship was found, with a pooled RR of 1.16 (1.01, 1.33) for each 5 kg/m2. increment in maternal BMI. The present study suggests that excessive maternal BMI is associated with increased ASD risk in offspring.
Mental Health Center, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Jiefang Road 238#, Wuchang District, Wuhan 430060, P. R. China.|Hubei Provincial Mental Health Center, Jiefang Road 238#, Wuchang District, Wuhan 430060, P. R. China.
Ying
Y
Wang
Mental Health Center, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Jiefang Road 238#, Wuchang District, Wuhan 430060, P. R. China.|Hubei Provincial Mental Health Center, Jiefang Road 238#, Wuchang District, Wuhan 430060, P. R. China.
Shiming
S
Tang
Mental Health Center, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Jiefang Road 238#, Wuchang District, Wuhan 430060, P. R. China.|Hubei Provincial Mental Health Center, Jiefang Road 238#, Wuchang District, Wuhan 430060, P. R. China.
Shunsheng
S
Xu
Mental Health Center, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Jiefang Road 238#, Wuchang District, Wuhan 430060, P. R. China.|Hubei Provincial Mental Health Center, Jiefang Road 238#, Wuchang District, Wuhan 430060, P. R. China.
Shenhong
S
Weng
Mental Health Center, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Jiefang Road 238#, Wuchang District, Wuhan 430060, P. R. China.|Hubei Provincial Mental Health Center, Jiefang Road 238#, Wuchang District, Wuhan 430060, P. R. China.|Department of Psychiatry, Institution of Neuropsychiatry Research, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Jiefang Road 238#, Wuchang District, Wuhan 430060, P. R. China.
Zhongchun
Z
Liu
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