The
pregnancy was a
risk factor for excessive gain for
women. However, there is no information about the
prevalence of
obesity and its relationship with a
history of
pregnancy in
girls. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate differences in the
prevalence of
obesity in
adolescent females with a
history of
pregnancy and factors associated with it, in
Korea. In 2009, 69 of 34,247
female students revealed that they had experienced
pregnancy in response to the 5[th]
Korea Youth Risk Behavior Web-based
Survey [KYRBWS-V] project by the
Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [KCDCP]. The
body mass index [BMI] and experienced
pregnancy categories of the KYRBWS-V were assessed, and, for
data analysis, the independent t-
test, chi-square test, and multivariate
logistic regression were used. The
risk of
pregnancy was increased by approximately 47% per unit increase in age, and 331% per unit increase in
depression, respectively. Conversely, the
risk decreased by 19% per unit increase in BMI and 33% per unit increase [ranged from 1 very rich to 5 very poor] in the
family economic
state.
Obesity in
adolescent females is minimally affected by a
history of
pregnancy, if at all, despite the fact that
pregnancy was
risk factor for excessive
weight gain in
women. However,
adolescent females with a
history of
pregnancy have higher levels of
depression than do normal peers in
Korea