Early‐life childhood obesity risk prediction: A Danish register‐based cohort study exploring the predictive value of infancy weight gain
Postnatal weight gain is important for predicting later overweight and obesity. It is unclear whether the inclusion of this postnatal predictor improves the predictive performance of a comprehensive model based on prenatal and birth‐related predictors. The study adds weight gain information when predicting childhood obesity. Weight gain information improves discrimination and sensitivity of prediction models. Adding this information correctly classified 30% more children without obesity and 21%
