eprintid: 10152056 rev_number: 7 eprint_status: archive userid: 699 dir: disk0/10/15/20/56 datestamp: 2022-07-14 09:52:04 lastmod: 2022-07-14 09:52:04 status_changed: 2022-07-14 09:52:04 type: article metadata_visibility: show sword_depositor: 699 creators_name: Filteau, Suzanne creators_name: Kasonka, Lackson creators_name: Wells, Jonathan CK creators_name: Munthali, Grace creators_name: Chisenga, Molly creators_name: Rehman, Andrea Mary title: Anthropometry, body composition, early growth and chronic disease risk factors among Zambian adolescents exposed or not to perinatal maternal HIV ispublished: inpress divisions: UCL divisions: G25 divisions: D13 divisions: B02 keywords: HIV, Growth trajectory, Body composition, Chronic disease risk, Adolescent, HbA1c, Cohort note: Copyright © Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Nutrition Society. This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution and reproduction, provided the original article is properly cited. abstract: Early life exposures and growth patterns may affect long-term risk of chronic non-communicable diseases (NCD). We followed up in adolescence two Zambian cohorts (n 322) recruited in infancy to investigate how two early exposures - maternal HIV exposure without HIV infection (HEU) and early growth profile - were associated with later anthropometry, body composition, blood lipids, Hb and HbA1c, blood pressure and grip strength. Although in analyses controlled for age and sex, HEU children were thinner, but not shorter, than HIV-unexposed, uninfected (HUU) children, with further control for socio-demographic factors, these differences were not significant. HEU children had higher HDL-cholesterol than HUU children and marginally lower HbA1c but no other biochemical or clinical differences. We identified three early growth profiles - adequate growth, declining and malnourished - which tracked into adolescence when differences in anthropometry and body fat were still seen. In adolescence, the early malnourished group, compared with the adequate group, had lower blood TAG and higher HDL, lower grip strength (difference: -1·87 kg, 95 % CI -3·47, -0·27; P = 0·02) and higher HbA1c (difference: 0·5 %, 95 % CI 0·2, 0·9; P = 0·005). Lower grip strength and higher HbA1c suggest the early malnourished children could be at increased risk of NCD in later life. Including early growth profile in analyses of HIV exposure reduced the associations between HIV and outcomes. The results suggest that perinatal HIV exposure may have no long-term effects unless accompanied by poor early growth. Reducing the risk of young child malnutrition may lessen children's risk of later NCD. date: 2022-06-13 date_type: published publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS official_url: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007114522001775 oa_status: green full_text_type: pub language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green verified: verified_manual elements_id: 1963482 doi: 10.1017/S0007114522001775 medium: Print-Electronic pii: S0007114522001775 lyricists_name: Wells, Jonathan lyricists_id: JWELL04 actors_name: Flynn, Bernadette actors_id: BFFLY94 actors_role: owner funding_acknowledgements: E43032 [International Atomic Energy Agency]; [UK Medical Research Council (MRC)]; [UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) under the MRC/DFID]; MR/R010161/1 [European Union] full_text_status: public publication: British Journal of Nutrition pages: 12 event_location: England issn: 0007-1145 citation: Filteau, Suzanne; Kasonka, Lackson; Wells, Jonathan CK; Munthali, Grace; Chisenga, Molly; Rehman, Andrea Mary; (2022) Anthropometry, body composition, early growth and chronic disease risk factors among Zambian adolescents exposed or not to perinatal maternal HIV. British Journal of Nutrition 10.1017/S0007114522001775 <https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007114522001775>. (In press). Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10152056/1/anthropometry-body-composition-early-growth-and-chronic-disease-risk-factors-among-zambian-adolescents-exposed-or-not-to-perinatal-maternal-hiv.pdf