Adiposity changes in youth with a family history of cardiovascular disease: impact of ethnicity, gender and socioeconomic status.
| Autor: | Moore DB; Department of Pediatrics, BG-2120, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA 30912-3770, USA. DMOORE@mcg.edu, Howell PB, Treiber FA |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Zdroj: | Journal of the Association for Academic Minority Physicians : the official publication of the Association for Academic Minority Physicians [J Assoc Acad Minor Phys] 2002 Jul; Vol. 13 (3), pp. 76-83. |
| Abstrakt: | Objective: The purpose of this study is to describe change in the prevalence of overweightness over time in a cohort of youth with a family history of cardiovascular disease and to determine whether changes in adiposity were influenced in this group by ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic status (SES), or interactions among these factors. Methods: Two hundred and fifty-three subjects with an average age of 8.8 years +/- 2.0 (SD) at the initial visit and 16.0 years +/- 1.8 SD at follow-up were included in the study. Measures of general adiposity, central adiposity, and peripheral adiposity were obtained at both the initial and follow-up visits. Overweight was defined as having a body mass index (BMI) > the 95th percentile; at risk for overweight was defined as having a BMI between the 85th and 95th percentile for age and gender. Results: The prevalence of overweight among the study group remained stable at about 22%, while the prevalence of at risk for being overweight increased from 8.7% to 17.4%. Nearly 40% of all the participants had a BMI > 85th percentile at follow-up. Lower SES youth demonstrated the largest increases in BMI, standardized BMI, sum of skinfold thickness, waist circumference, and triceps skinfold thickness. Conclusions: The prevalence of youth at risk for being overweight increases during late childhood and adolescence. Effectively focused primary prevention efforts are needed for at-risk youth to prevent the later development of adiposity-related morbidity. |
| Databáze: | MEDLINE |
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