Measured parental weight status and familial socio-economic status correlates with childhood overweight and obesity at age 9.

<h4>Background</h4>Parental obesity is a predominant risk factor for childhood obesity. Family factors including socio-economic status (SES) play a role in determining parent weight. It is essential to unpick how shared family factors impact on child weight. This study aims to investigat...

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Autores principales:	Eimear Keane, Richard Layte, Janas Harrington, Patricia M Kearney, Ivan J Perry
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Publicado:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:f80ec6864ed9490aabafdbf512ee84d22021-11-18T07:08:20ZMeasured parental weight status and familial socio-economic status correlates with childhood overweight and obesity at age 9.1932-620310.1371/journal.pone.0043503https://doaj.org/article/f80ec6864ed9490aabafdbf512ee84d22012-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/22912886/pdf/?tool=EBIhttps://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203<h4>Background</h4>Parental obesity is a predominant risk factor for childhood obesity. Family factors including socio-economic status (SES) play a role in determining parent weight. It is essential to unpick how shared family factors impact on child weight. This study aims to investigate the association between measured parent weight status, familial socio-economic factors and the risk of childhood obesity at age 9.<h4>Methodology/principal findings</h4>Cross sectional analysis of the first wave (2008) of the Growing Up in Ireland (GUI) study. GUI is a nationally representative study of 9-year-old children (N = 8,568). Schools were selected from the national total (response rate 82%) and age eligible children (response rate 57%) were invited to participate. Children and their parents had height and weight measurements taken using standard methods. Data were reweighted to account for the sampling design. Childhood overweight and obesity prevalence were calculated using International Obesity Taskforce definitions. Multinomial logistic regression examined the association between parent weight status, indicators of SES and child weight. Overall, 25% of children were either overweight (19.3%) or obese (6.6%). Parental obesity was a significant predictor of child obesity. Of children with normal weight parents, 14.4% were overweight or obese whereas 46.2% of children with obese parents were overweight or obese. Maternal education and household class were more consistently associated with a child being in a higher body mass index category than household income. Adjusted regression indicated that female gender, one parent family type, lower maternal education, lower household class and a heavier parent weight status significantly increased the odds of childhood obesity.<h4>Conclusions/significance</h4>Parental weight appears to be the most influential factor driving the childhood obesity epidemic in Ireland and is an independent predictor of child obesity across SES groups. Due to the high prevalence of obesity in parents and children, population based interventions are required.Eimear KeaneRichard LayteJanas HarringtonPatricia M KearneyIvan J PerryPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 7, Iss 8, p e43503 (2012)
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spellingShingle	Medicine R Science Q Eimear Keane Richard Layte Janas Harrington Patricia M Kearney Ivan J Perry Measured parental weight status and familial socio-economic status correlates with childhood overweight and obesity at age 9.
description	<h4>Background</h4>Parental obesity is a predominant risk factor for childhood obesity. Family factors including socio-economic status (SES) play a role in determining parent weight. It is essential to unpick how shared family factors impact on child weight. This study aims to investigate the association between measured parent weight status, familial socio-economic factors and the risk of childhood obesity at age 9.<h4>Methodology/principal findings</h4>Cross sectional analysis of the first wave (2008) of the Growing Up in Ireland (GUI) study. GUI is a nationally representative study of 9-year-old children (N = 8,568). Schools were selected from the national total (response rate 82%) and age eligible children (response rate 57%) were invited to participate. Children and their parents had height and weight measurements taken using standard methods. Data were reweighted to account for the sampling design. Childhood overweight and obesity prevalence were calculated using International Obesity Taskforce definitions. Multinomial logistic regression examined the association between parent weight status, indicators of SES and child weight. Overall, 25% of children were either overweight (19.3%) or obese (6.6%). Parental obesity was a significant predictor of child obesity. Of children with normal weight parents, 14.4% were overweight or obese whereas 46.2% of children with obese parents were overweight or obese. Maternal education and household class were more consistently associated with a child being in a higher body mass index category than household income. Adjusted regression indicated that female gender, one parent family type, lower maternal education, lower household class and a heavier parent weight status significantly increased the odds of childhood obesity.<h4>Conclusions/significance</h4>Parental weight appears to be the most influential factor driving the childhood obesity epidemic in Ireland and is an independent predictor of child obesity across SES groups. Due to the high prevalence of obesity in parents and children, population based interventions are required.
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author	Eimear Keane Richard Layte Janas Harrington Patricia M Kearney Ivan J Perry
author_facet	Eimear Keane Richard Layte Janas Harrington Patricia M Kearney Ivan J Perry
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title	Measured parental weight status and familial socio-economic status correlates with childhood overweight and obesity at age 9.
title_short	Measured parental weight status and familial socio-economic status correlates with childhood overweight and obesity at age 9.
title_full	Measured parental weight status and familial socio-economic status correlates with childhood overweight and obesity at age 9.
title_fullStr	Measured parental weight status and familial socio-economic status correlates with childhood overweight and obesity at age 9.
title_full_unstemmed	Measured parental weight status and familial socio-economic status correlates with childhood overweight and obesity at age 9.
title_sort	measured parental weight status and familial socio-economic status correlates with childhood overweight and obesity at age 9.
publisher	Public Library of Science (PLoS)
publishDate	2012
url	https://doaj.org/article/f80ec6864ed9490aabafdbf512ee84d2
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Measured parental weight status and familial socio-economic status correlates with childhood overweight and obesity at age 9.

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