Interaction between Parental Education and Household Wealth on Children’s Obesity Risk
| Autor: | Yang Liu, Deliang Wen, Nan Jiang, Qian Fan, Shenzhi Song, Yanan Ma |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Parents China Pediatric Obesity Health Toxicology and Mutagenesis media_common.quotation_subject lcsh:Medicine 030209 endocrinology & metabolism Obesity risk Childhood obesity Article Body Mass Index 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Parental education Risk Factors Surveys and Questionnaires medicine Economic Status Humans Social inequality 030212 general & internal medicine Girl Child Abdominal obesity media_common household wealth business.industry lcsh:R Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health health inequalities Anthropometry medicine.disease Obesity parents’ education Female medicine.symptom business childhood obesity Demography |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health Volume 15 Issue 8 International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Vol 15, Iss 8, p 1754 (2018) |
| ISSN: | 1660-4601 |
| DOI: | 10.3390/ijerph15081754 |
| Popis: | Parents&rsquo education and household wealth cannot be presumed to operate independently of each other. However, in traditional studies on the impact of social inequality on obesity, education and financial wealth tend to be viewed as separable processes. The present study examines the interaction of parents&rsquo education and household wealth in relation to childhood obesity. Anthropometric measurement and questionnaire surveys were carried out on 3670 children (aged 9&ndash 12 years) and their parents from 26 elementary schools in northeast China. Results showed that the interaction term was significant for household wealth and father&rsquo s education (p < 0.01), while no significant interaction between household wealth and mother&rsquo s education was found. In a separate analysis, the interaction was statistically significant among girls for obesity risk based on BMI (p = 0.02), and among urban children for both obesity risk based on BMI (p = 0.01) and abdominal obesity risk based on WHR (p = 0.03). Specifically, when household wealth increased from the first quintile to the fifth quintile, OR for father&rsquo s education decreased from higher than 1 (OR = 1.95 95% CI: 1.12&ndash 3.38) to non-significant for girl&rsquo s obesity risk, from non-significant to lower than 1 for urban children&rsquo s obesity risk (OR = 0.52 95% CI: 0.32&ndash 0.86 for the fourth quintile OR = 0.37 95% CI: 0.19&ndash 0.73 for the fifth quintile) and from higher than 1 (OR = 1.61 95% CI: 1.04&ndash 2.05) to non-significant for urban children&rsquo s abdominal obesity risk. These findings indicate that father&rsquo s education level interacts with household wealth to influence obesity among girls and urban children in northeast China. |
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