Behavioral counseling to prevent childhood obesity – study protocol of a pragmatic trial in maternity and child health care

Table 2 Timing of questionnaires, physical measurements and laboratory tests

Maternity care	Weeks' gestation
	8-12	26-28	37	After childbirth
	Mother's age	Mother´s average	Mother´s average sleep h/d	Gestation week of childbirth
	Mother's education	sleep h/d	Mother's average physical activity	Birthweight
	Father’s	Mother's average	h/d	Birth length
	education	physical activity h/d	Blood pressure	Birth head circumference
	Mother's weight and height before pregnancy	Blood pressure	Mother's weight
	Mothers chronic illness	Oral glucose
	Fathers weight and height	tolerance test
	History of GDM
	History of newborn > 4500 g
	Smoking during pregnancy
	Previous deliveries
	Immediate family history of DM 2, CAD, hypertension, obesity and hypercholesterolemia
	Mother´s average sleep h/d
	Mother's average physical activity h/d
	Blood pressure
Child health care	1 year of age	2, 4 and 6 years of age *	3 and 5 years of age
	Chronic illness	Chronic illness	Chronic illness
	4 and 6 months weight and length	Consumption of	Consumption of beverage, fruits, vegetables, berries, sweets,
	Weight	beverage, fruits,	pastry, bread, yoghurt, eating at takeaway restaurant
	Length	vegetables, berries,	Regularity of meals
		sweets, pastry, bread,	Sleep time h/d
		yoghurt, eating at	Daily physical activity/outdoor activities
		takeaway restaurant	Daily screentime
		Regularity of meals	Weight
		Sleep time h/d	Height
		Daily physical	Waist circumference
		activity/outdoor	Blood pressure
		activities
		Daily screentime
		Weight
		Height
		Waist circumference
		Blood pressure
		fP-glucose
		fP-insulin
		fP-cholesterol
		fP-HDL-cholesterol
		fP-triglyserides
		P-ALAT

* At these timepoints the parents are offered to have their weight, waist circumference, blood pressure, fP-glucose, fP-cholesterol, fP-HDL-cholesterol and fP-triglycerides measured by health care centre; fP = fasting plasma; GDM = gestational diabetes mellitus; DM = diabetes mellitus; CAD = coronary artery disease; P-ALAT = plasma alaninaminotransferase.

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