Parental influence on the development of obesity in 9-year-old Japanese children: the Toyama birth cohort study
Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine
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: 173-175, 2002.
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Dans Anglais
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| ID: wpr-284973
ABSTRACT
<p><b>OBJECTIVES</b>To examine parental influence on the development of obesity in 9-year-old Japanese children.</p><p><b>METHODS</b>A 6-year follow-up study of obesity among 6,102 children born in Toyama prefecture.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>After adjusting for obesity at age 3, either paternal obesity or maternal obesity at the age 3 survey more than double the risk of obesity at age 9 in both genders. Increases in parental body mass indexes (BMIs) from the age 3 survey through the age 9 survey were significantly associated with obesity at age 9 in girls.</p><p><b>CONCLUSIONS</b>Not only parental obesity but also increases in parental BMIs were likely to be associated with development of obesity in children.</p>
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WPRIM (Pacifique occidental)
Type d'étude:
Etude d'étiologie
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Étude observationnelle
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Étude pronostique
langue:
Anglais
Texte intégral:
Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine
Année:
2002
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Article
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