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High Rates of Infant Macrosomia: A Comparison of a Canadian Native and a Non-Native Population¹

Shaila Rodrigues^*, Elizabeth J. Robinson, Michael S. Kramer^** and Katherine Gray-Donald^*2

^* School of Dietetics and Human Nutrition, McGill University, Montreal, Canada H9X 3V9, Public Health Module-Cree Region, Montreal General Hospital, Montreal, Canada H3C 2M2 and ^** Departments of Pediatrics and of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McGill University, Montreal, Canada H3A 1A2

²To whom correspondence should be addressed.

The Cree of James Bay have the highest ever reported mean birth weight and a high prevalence of infant macrosomia. This study was designed to examine independent risk factors for infant macrosomia among the Cree, to compare these to risk factors among non-Native Canadians and to determine if ethnic differences persist after adjusting for differences in the distribution of other risk factors. Macrosomia was defined as birth weight >90^th percentile for gestational age of a reference population. Independent determinants of macrosomia were examined in 385 Cree and 5644 non-Native women. The potential effect of ethnicity (Cree vs. non-Native) was determined after statistically adjusting for age, parity, pregravid weight, height, net rate of weight gain, gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) and smoking status. The prevalence of macrosomia among the Cree was 34.3% vs. 11.1% among non-Natives. Although GDM significantly increased the risk for macrosomia among the Cree (odds ratio: 4.46, 95% CI: 2.24–9.26), it was not a significant risk factor among non-Natives (odds ratio: 1.15, 95% CI: 0.79–1.65). The risk for infant macrosomia remained elevated among the Cree compared with non-Natives after adjusting for other risk factors (odds ratio: 3.64, 95% CI: 2.69–4.90). In conclusion, the Cree have a high prevalence of macrosomia despite controlling for important differences in pregravid weight and GDM. Some of this variation may be due to genetic differences in fetal growth. The differential impact of GDM on macrosomia in the two ethnic groups may be due to differences in treatment strategies for GDM.

KEY WORDS: • macrosomia • diabetes • ethnicity • humans • birth weight

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