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International Journal of Epidemiology 2002;31:420-421
© International Epidemiological Association 2002

Life Course Epidemiology

Commentary: Maternal smoking during pregnancy and obesity in the offspring

Jan van der Meulen

Health Services Research Unit, Department of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK.

The evidence on the effects of poor fetal growth on The evidence on the effects of poor fetal growth on the development of obesity in adult life gives a mixed picture. Size at birth seems to be associated with the distribution of body fat rather than with total body mass. For example, people who were light as babies were found to have more truncal fat independent of overall fatness.1 On the other hand, people who had high birthweight were found to be somewhat more obese as adults than those with low birthweight.2,3

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