TY - JOUR
T1 - Social mobility by parent education and childhood overweight and obesity: a prospective cohort study
AU - Lin, Lizi
AU - Yang-Huang, Junwen
AU - Wang, Haijun
AU - Santos, Susana
AU - van Grieken, Amy
AU - Raat, Hein
PY - 2021/10/11
Y1 - 2021/10/11
N2 - BACKGROUND: The association of social mobility, measured by parent education and childhood overweight and obesity (OWOB) has been scarcely reported on. This study evaluated the associations between social mobility measured by parent education and childhood OWOB at child age 6 and 10 years. METHODS: We analyzed data of 4030 children and parents participating in the Generation R study. We used generalized linear models controlling for potential confounders to determine if social mobility (upward mobility, static-low and static-high based on the change of parent education) was associated with age- and sex-specific standard deviation scores of body mass index (BMI-SDS) or OWOB (the cut-offs of International Obesity Task Force). RESULTS: Mean BMI-SDS of the children was 0.23 ± 0.89 and 0.26 ± 1.03 at child age 6 and 10 years, respectively; the prevalence of OWOB increased from 15.2 to 17.4%. Compared with children from mothers in the upward mobility group, children from mothers in the static-high group had lower BMI-SDS and lower odds of OWOB at both ages (all P
AB - BACKGROUND: The association of social mobility, measured by parent education and childhood overweight and obesity (OWOB) has been scarcely reported on. This study evaluated the associations between social mobility measured by parent education and childhood OWOB at child age 6 and 10 years. METHODS: We analyzed data of 4030 children and parents participating in the Generation R study. We used generalized linear models controlling for potential confounders to determine if social mobility (upward mobility, static-low and static-high based on the change of parent education) was associated with age- and sex-specific standard deviation scores of body mass index (BMI-SDS) or OWOB (the cut-offs of International Obesity Task Force). RESULTS: Mean BMI-SDS of the children was 0.23 ± 0.89 and 0.26 ± 1.03 at child age 6 and 10 years, respectively; the prevalence of OWOB increased from 15.2 to 17.4%. Compared with children from mothers in the upward mobility group, children from mothers in the static-high group had lower BMI-SDS and lower odds of OWOB at both ages (all P
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U2 - 10.1093/eurpub/ckab073
DO - 10.1093/eurpub/ckab073
M3 - Article
C2 - 34491333
AN - SCOPUS:85118314934
VL - 31
SP - 764
EP - 770
JO - European Journal of Public Health
JF - European Journal of Public Health
SN - 1101-1262
IS - 4
ER -
