Stability of the associations between early life risk indicators and adolescent overweight over the evolving obesity epidemic.
BACKGROUND: Pre- and perinatal factors and preschool body size may help identify children developing overweight, but these factors might have changed during the development of the obesity epidemic. OBJECTIVE: We aimed to assess the associations between early life risk indicators and overweight at th...
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ftunivcam:oai:www.repository.cam.ac.uk:1810/309408 2024-02-04T10:03:15+01:00 Stability of the associations between early life risk indicators and adolescent overweight over the evolving obesity epidemic. Graversen, Lise Sørensen, Thorkild IA Petersen, Liselotte Sovio, Ulla Kaakinen, Marika Sandbæk, Annelli Laitinen, Jaana Taanila, Anja Pouta, Anneli Järvelin, Marjo-Riitta Obel, Carsten 2014 Electronic-eCollection application/pdf https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/309408 https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.56497 eng eng Public Library of Science (PLoS) http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0095314 PLoS One https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/309408 doi:10.17863/CAM.56497 Attribution 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Adolescent Child Finland Humans Obesity Overweight Risk Factors Article 2014 ftunivcam https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.56497 2024-01-11T23:31:59Z BACKGROUND: Pre- and perinatal factors and preschool body size may help identify children developing overweight, but these factors might have changed during the development of the obesity epidemic. OBJECTIVE: We aimed to assess the associations between early life risk indicators and overweight at the age of 9 and 15 years at different stages of the obesity epidemic. METHODS: We used two population-based Northern Finland Birth Cohorts including 4111 children born in 1966 (NFBC1966) and 5414 children born in 1985-1986 (NFBC1986). In both cohorts, we used the same a priori defined prenatal factors, maternal body mass index (BMI), birth weight, infant weight (age 5 months and 1 year), and preschool BMI (age 2-5 years). We used internal references in early childhood to define percentiles of body size (<50, 50-75, 75-90 and >90) and generalized linear models to study the association with overweight, according to the International Obesity Taskforce (IOTF) definitions, at the ages of 9 and 15 years. RESULTS: The prevalence of overweight at the age of 15 was 9% for children born in 1966 and 16% for children born in 1986. However, medians of infant weight and preschool BMI changed little between the cohorts, and we found similar associations between maternal BMI, infant weight, preschool BMI, and later overweight in the two cohorts. At 5 years, children above the 90th percentile had approximately a 12 times higher risk of being overweight at the age of 15 years compared to children below the 50th percentile in both cohorts. CONCLUSIONS: The associations between early body size and adolescent overweight showed remarkable stability, despite the increase in prevalence of overweight over the 20 years between the cohorts. Using consequently defined internal percentiles may be a valuable tool in clinical practice. Article in Journal/Newspaper Northern Finland Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository |
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Adolescent Child Finland Humans Obesity Overweight Risk Factors Graversen, Lise Sørensen, Thorkild IA Petersen, Liselotte Sovio, Ulla Kaakinen, Marika Sandbæk, Annelli Laitinen, Jaana Taanila, Anja Pouta, Anneli Järvelin, Marjo-Riitta Obel, Carsten Stability of the associations between early life risk indicators and adolescent overweight over the evolving obesity epidemic. |
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BACKGROUND: Pre- and perinatal factors and preschool body size may help identify children developing overweight, but these factors might have changed during the development of the obesity epidemic. OBJECTIVE: We aimed to assess the associations between early life risk indicators and overweight at the age of 9 and 15 years at different stages of the obesity epidemic. METHODS: We used two population-based Northern Finland Birth Cohorts including 4111 children born in 1966 (NFBC1966) and 5414 children born in 1985-1986 (NFBC1986). In both cohorts, we used the same a priori defined prenatal factors, maternal body mass index (BMI), birth weight, infant weight (age 5 months and 1 year), and preschool BMI (age 2-5 years). We used internal references in early childhood to define percentiles of body size (<50, 50-75, 75-90 and >90) and generalized linear models to study the association with overweight, according to the International Obesity Taskforce (IOTF) definitions, at the ages of 9 and 15 years. RESULTS: The prevalence of overweight at the age of 15 was 9% for children born in 1966 and 16% for children born in 1986. However, medians of infant weight and preschool BMI changed little between the cohorts, and we found similar associations between maternal BMI, infant weight, preschool BMI, and later overweight in the two cohorts. At 5 years, children above the 90th percentile had approximately a 12 times higher risk of being overweight at the age of 15 years compared to children below the 50th percentile in both cohorts. CONCLUSIONS: The associations between early body size and adolescent overweight showed remarkable stability, despite the increase in prevalence of overweight over the 20 years between the cohorts. Using consequently defined internal percentiles may be a valuable tool in clinical practice. |
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Graversen, Lise Sørensen, Thorkild IA Petersen, Liselotte Sovio, Ulla Kaakinen, Marika Sandbæk, Annelli Laitinen, Jaana Taanila, Anja Pouta, Anneli Järvelin, Marjo-Riitta Obel, Carsten |
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Graversen, Lise Sørensen, Thorkild IA Petersen, Liselotte Sovio, Ulla Kaakinen, Marika Sandbæk, Annelli Laitinen, Jaana Taanila, Anja Pouta, Anneli Järvelin, Marjo-Riitta Obel, Carsten |
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Stability of the associations between early life risk indicators and adolescent overweight over the evolving obesity epidemic. |
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Stability of the associations between early life risk indicators and adolescent overweight over the evolving obesity epidemic. |
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Stability of the associations between early life risk indicators and adolescent overweight over the evolving obesity epidemic. |
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Stability of the associations between early life risk indicators and adolescent overweight over the evolving obesity epidemic. |
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Stability of the associations between early life risk indicators and adolescent overweight over the evolving obesity epidemic. |
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stability of the associations between early life risk indicators and adolescent overweight over the evolving obesity epidemic. |
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