No Association Found Between Prenatal, Early Childhood Exposure To Antibiotics And Obesity At Age 4, Study Shows

reported that in a large nationwide study published in JAMA Network Open, “no association was found between prenatal or early childhood exposure to antibiotics and obesity at 4 years of age in fixed-effects analyses of sibling and twin data.” The piece explained, “Cross-sectional national data from 150,699 children in New Zealand were used to analyze the association of exposure to antibiotics during pregnancy or early childhood with childhood obesity.” https://www.endocrinologyadvisor.com/home/topics/pediatric-endocrinology/antibiotic-exposure-in-prenatal-period-and-childhood-not-linked-to-obesity/