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Summary: Background: Existing studies evaluating the association between maternal risk factors and specific infant outcomes such as birthweight, injury admissions, and mortality have mostly focused on single risk factors. We aimed to identify routinely recorded psychosocial characteristics of pregnant women most at risk of adverse infant outcomes to inform targeting of early intervention. Methods: We created a cohort using administrative hospital data (Hospital Episode Statistics) for all births to mothers aged 15–44 years in England, UK, who gave birth on or after April 1, 2010, and who were discharged before or on March 31, 2015. We used generalised linear models to evaluate associations between psychosocial risk factors recorded in hospital records in the 2 years before the 20th week of pregnancy (ie, teenage motherhood, deprivation, pre-pregnancy hospital admissions for mental health or behavioural conditions, and pre-pregnancy hospital admissions for adversity, including drug or alcohol abuse, violence, and self-harm) and infant outcomes (ie, birthweight, unplanned admission for injury, or death from any cause, within 12 months from postnatal discharge). Findings: Of 2 520 501 births initially assessed, 2 137 103 were eligible and were included in the birth outcome analysis. Among the eligible births, 93 279 (4·4%) were births to teenage mothers (age

OBJECTIVE To assess weight and HbA1c changes in the Healthier You: National Health Service Diabetes Prevention Programme (NHS DPP), the largest DPP globally to achieve universal population coverage. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS A service evaluation assessed intervention effectiveness for adults with nondiabetic hyperglycemia (HbA1c 42–47 mmol/mol [6.0–6.4%] or fasting plasma glucose 5.5–6.9 mmol/L) between program launch in June 2016 and December 2018, using prospectively collected, national service–level data in England. RESULTS By December 2018, 324,699 people had been referred, 152,294 had attended the initial assessment, and 96,442 had attended at least 1 of 13 group-based intervention sessions. Allowing sufficient time to elapse, 53% attended an initial assessment, 36% attended at least one group-based session, and 19% completed the intervention (attended >60% of sessions). Of the 32,665 who attended at least one intervention session and had sufficient time to finish, 17,252 (53%) completed: intention-to-treat analyses demonstrated a mean weight loss of 2.3 kg (95% CI 2.2, 2.3) and an HbA1c reduction of 1.26 mmol/mol (1.20, 1.31) (0.12% [0.11, 0.12]); completer analysis demonstrated a mean weight loss of 3.3 kg (3.2, 3.4) and an HbA1c reduction of 2.04 mmol/mol (1.96, 2.12) (0.19% [0.18, 0.19]). Younger age, female sex, Asian and black ethnicity, lower socioeconomic status, and normal baseline BMI were associated with less weight loss. Older age, female sex, black ethnicity, lower socioeconomic status, and baseline overweight and obesity were associated with a smaller HbA1c reduction. CONCLUSIONS Reductions in weight and HbA1c compare favorably with those reported in recent meta-analyses of pragmatic studies and suggest likely future reductions in participant type 2 diabetes incidence.

OBJECTIVES:Implementation of a large-scale, child weight management program in low-income, ethnically diverse communities provided an important opportunity to evaluate its effectiveness under service level conditions (i.e. provision as a primary care child weight management service). METHODS:MEND 7-13 is a community-based, multi-component, childhood obesity intervention designed to improve dietary, physical activity and sedentary behaviors. It comprises twice weekly sessions for 10 consecutive weeks (35 contact hours) and is delivered to groups of children and accompanying parents/caregivers. The evaluation used an uncontrolled, repeated measures design. Overall, 3782 children with overweight or obesity attended 415 MEND 7-13 programs in eight US states, of whom 2482 children (65.6%) had complete data for change in zBMI. The intervention targeted low-income, ethnically diverse families. Changes in anthropometric, cardiovascular fitness and psychological outcomes were evaluated. A longitudinal multivariate imputation model was used to impute missing data. Peer effects analysis was conducted using the instrumental variables approach and group fixed effects. RESULTS:Mean changes in BMI and zBMI at 10 weeks were -0.49 kg/m2 (95% CI: -0.67, -0.31) and -0.06 (95% CI: -0.08, -0.05), respectively. Benefits were observed for cardiovascular fitness and psychological outcomes. Mean peer reduction in zBMI was associated with a reduction in participant zBMI in the instrumental variables model (B = 0.78, P = 0.04, 95% CI: 0.03, 1.53). Mean program attendance and retention were 73.9% and 88.5%, respectively. CONCLUSION:Implementing MEND 7-13 under service level conditions was associated with short-term improvements in anthropometric, fitness and psychological indices in a large sample of low-income, ethnically diverse children with overweight and obesity. A peer effect was quantified showing that benefits for an individual child were enhanced, if peers in the same group also performed well. To our knowledge, this is the first US study to evaluate outcomes of an up-scaled community-based, child weight management program and to show positive peer effects associated with participation in the intervention.