Subjective Household Economic Status and Obesity in Toddlers: A Cross-Sectional Study of Daycare Centers in Japan
| Autor: | Michiko Sakai, Noriko Kurasawa, Kaori Kobayashi, Miki Tanaka, Ichiro Tsuji, Yasutake Tomata, Yuka Kamada, Shu Zhang, Kumiko Tanno, Fukuko Hiramoto |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
| Předmět: |
economic status
Male obesity Pediatric Obesity Epidemiology Cross-sectional study Short Communication 030209 endocrinology & metabolism Overweight Logistic regression 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Japan children Risk Factors Environmental health Humans Medicine 030212 general & internal medicine Toddler Risk factor Socioeconomic status Nutrition lcsh:R5-920 Family Characteristics business.industry Child Day Care Centers social sciences General Medicine Odds ratio medicine.disease Obesity Cross-Sectional Studies Child Preschool population characteristics Female medicine.symptom lcsh:Medicine (General) business |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Epidemiology Journal of Epidemiology, Vol 29, Iss 1, Pp 33-37 (2019) |
| ISSN: | 1349-9092 0917-5040 |
| DOI: | 10.2188/jea.je20170081 |
| Popis: | Background: Although lower household economic status is known to be a risk factor for obesity among school-age children, such an association among toddlers remains unclear. The present study investigated the association between household economic status and obesity in toddlers. Design: We conducted a cross-sectional study of children aged 4 years attending daycare centers in Japan. Information on subjective household economic status [“affluent”, “neither”, “less affluent”, or “non-affluent”] was collected via questionnaire from the children’s guardians in 2015. Based on measured values of height and weight, obesity was defined using the International Obesity Task Force cut-offs of overweight (BMI ≥17.47 for boys and ≥17.19 for girls). We used the logistic regression model to investigate the association between household economic status and obesity. Results: Among 1,848 respondents, the prevalence of obesity was 6.8%. Non-affluent household economic status was associated with a significantly higher probability of obesity in toddlers; the multivariate adjusted odds ratio for “non-affluent” households was 2.31 (95% confidence interval, 1.23–4.33) compared with “affluent” households. Conclusion: Perception of non-affluent economic status by the guardian was associated with a higher probability of toddler obesity. This result suggests that non-affluent household economic status is associated with obesity in toddlers. |
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