Sizing the association between lifestyle behaviours and fatness in a large, heterogeneous sample of youth of multiple ethnicities from 4 countries.

Autor: Sluyter JD; Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Population Health, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand. r.scragg@auckland.ac.nz., Scragg RK, Plank LD, Waqa GD, Fotu KF, Swinburn BA
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity [Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act] 2013 Oct 12; Vol. 10, pp. 115. Date of Electronic Publication: 2013 Oct 12.
DOI: 10.1186/1479-5868-10-115
Abstrakt: Background: The magnitude of the relationship between lifestyle risk factors for obesity and adiposity is not clear. The aim of this study was to clarify this in order to determine the level of importance of lifestyle factors in obesity aetiology.
Methods: A cross-sectional analysis was carried out on data on youth who were not trying to change weight (n = 5714), aged 12 to 22 years and from 8 ethnic groups living in New Zealand, Australia, Fiji and Tonga. Demographic and lifestyle data were measured by questionnaires. Fatness was measured by body mass index (BMI), BMI z-score and bioimpedance analysis, which was used to estimate percent body fat and total fat mass (TFM). Associations between lifestyle and body composition variables were examined using linear regression and forest plots.
Results: TV watching was positively related to fatness in a dose-dependent manner. Strong, dose-dependent associations were observed between fatness and soft drink consumption (positive relationship), breakfast consumption (inverse relationship) and after-school physical activity (inverse relationship). Breakfast consumption-fatness associations varied in size across ethnic groups. Lifestyle risk factors for obesity were associated with percentage differences in body composition variables that were greatest for TFM and smallest for BMI.
Conclusions: Lifestyle factors were most strongly related to TFM, which suggests that studies that use BMI alone to quantify fatness underestimate the full effect of lifestyle on adiposity. This study clarifies the size of lifestyle-fatness relationships observed in previous studies.
Databáze: MEDLINE
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