TY - JOUR T1 - Consumption of artificial sweeteners in pregnancy increased overweight risk in infants JF - Archives of disease in childhood - Education & practice edition JO - Arch Dis Child Educ Pract Ed SP - 277 LP - 277 DO - 10.1136/archdischild-2017-312618 VL - 102 IS - 5 AU - Fahimeda Ali Y1 - 2017/10/01 UR - http://ep.bmj.com/content/102/5/277.abstract N2 - Cohort study of mother–infant dyads.Setting: Canadian Healthy Infant Longitudinal Development Study. A population-based study with four contributing sites.Patients: Mothers of singleton pregnancies and their 1-year-old infants.Exposure: Maternal artificial and sugar-sweetened beverage intake from questionnaire, classified according to the number of servings per day/week/month.Outcomes: Primary outcome was infant body mass index (BMI) z-score at 1 year of age. Secondary outcome was the risk of being overweight (BMI z-score >97th centile) at 1 year of age.Follow-up period: Women recruited over 5 years (2009–2013). Infant BMI was calculated at 1 year of age.Patient follow-up: 3033 mother–infant dyads were recruited. 2682 completed follow-up of BMI and 2413 … ER -