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Distinct infant feeding type-specific plasma metabolites at age 3 months associate with body composition at 2 years.

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van Beijsterveldt, Inge ALP 
Myers, Pernille Neve 
Snowden, Stuart G 
Ong, Ken K 
Brix, Susanne 

Abstract

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES: Early life is a critical window for adiposity programming and metabolic profile may affect this programming. We investigated if plasma metabolites at age 3 months were associated with fat mass, fat free mass and abdominal subcutaneous and visceral fat outcomes at age 2 years in a cohort of healthy infants and if these associations were different between infants receiving exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) and those with exclusive formula feeding (EFF). METHODS: In 318 healthy term-born infants, we determined body composition by Dual Energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) and visceral fat by abdominal ultrasound at 2 age years. High-throughput metabolic profiling was performed on blood samples collected at age 3 months. Tertiles were generated for each body composition outcome and differences in plasma metabolite levels at age 3 months between infants with high and low body composition outcomes at age 2 years were evaluated in general, as well as separately in EBF- and EFF-infants. RESULTS: Distinct plasma metabolite variables identified at age 3 months were associated with body composition at 2 years. These metabolites included several classes of lyso-phospholipids. Associations between the metabolites at age 3 months and fat mass index, fat mass percentage, fat free mass index and visceral fat at 2 years were predominantly found in EBF-infants. CONCLUSION: Associations between plasma metabolite levels at age 3 months and high body fat mass at 2 years depend on infant feeding type. These findings contribute to our insight into the importance of infant feeding on adiposity programming in early life.

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Adiposity, Body composition, Breastfeeding, Metabolomics, Adiposity, Body Composition, Breast Feeding, Child, Preschool, Female, Humans, Infant, Intra-Abdominal Fat, Obesity

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Clin Nutr

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0261-5614
1532-1983

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Elsevier BV
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Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (CUH) (146281)
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (CUH) (146281)
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BB/P028195/1)
MRC (MC_UU_00006/2)
This study was funded by the EU Commission to the JPI HDHL program ‘Call III Biomarkers’ for the project: BioFN - Biomarkers for Infant Fat Mass Development and Nutrition (Grant agreement No 696295), administrated in Denmark by Innovation Fund Denmark (grant number 4203-00005B), Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development (ZonMW) (grant number 529051013), in the UK by Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BB/P028195/1) and Danone Nutricia Research, The Netherlands (to Rotterdam). AK is supported by the NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre (146281) and KKO is funded by the Medical Research Council (MC_UU_00006/2).