Gender-specific mediators of the association between parental education and adiposity among adolescents: the HEIA study

Autor: Yngvar Ommundsen, May Grydeland, Mekdes Kebede Gebremariam, Mona Bjelland, Nanna Lien, Ingunn Holden Bergh, Torunn Holm Totland, Lene Frost Andersen, Onyebuchi A. Arah
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2019
Předmět:
0301 basic medicine
Male
Parents
Pediatric Obesity
Epidemiology
lcsh:Medicine
Cardiovascular
Body fat percentage
0302 clinical medicine
Risk Factors
Medicine
Aetiology
Child
lcsh:Science
Adiposity
Pediatric
Multidisciplinary
Norway
Mental Health
Educational Status
Female
social and economic factors
Waist Circumference
medicine.medical_specialty
Mediation (statistics)
Waist
Adolescent
Article
Screen Time
03 medical and health sciences
Sex Factors
2.3 Psychological
Behavioral and Social Science
Humans
Social inequality
Obesity
Association (psychology)
Exercise
business.industry
Prevention
lcsh:R
Health Status Disparities
Anthropometry
030104 developmental biology
Socioeconomic Factors
Risk factors
lcsh:Q
Reduced Inequalities
Sedentary Behavior
business
Mind and Body
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Demography
Zdroj: Scientific Reports, Vol 9, Iss 1, Pp 1-9 (2019)
Scientific Reports
Scientific reports, vol 9, iss 1
ISSN: 2045-2322
Popis: Identifying the mechanisms behind socioeconomic inequalities in adiposity among youth is vital for efforts aimed at combating these inequalities. The study explored whether a broad range of behavioral and familial factors mediated the associations between parental education and indicators of adiposity among adolescents. Baseline data from a school-based intervention study conducted in 2007 among 11-year-old adolescents were used. Anthropometric outcomes, physical activity and sedentary time among adolescents were objectively measured. Other behavioral variables and parental waist circumference were self-reported. Mediation analyses were conducted. Among boys, maternal waist circumference (WC), paternal WC and TV viewing mediated 16%, 11.5% and 13% of the association between parental education and adolescent WC. The respective proportions when body fat percentage was used as the outcome variable were 22.5%, 16% and 21%. Among girls, maternal and paternal WC mediated 20% and 14% of the association between parental education and WC. The respective proportions when body fat percentage was used as the outcome variable were 14% and 10%. Other included variables did not play any mediating role. Parental WC was found to be a mediator of socioeconomic differences in adiposity in both genders; underlying mechanisms were however not investigated. Among boys, reducing TV time could contribute to the reduction of social inequalities in adiposity.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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