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Are there birth cohort effects in disparities in child obesity by maternal education?
- Source :
- International Journal of Obesity. 45:599-608
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020.
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Abstract
- BACKGROUND Children belonging to the same birth cohort (i.e., born in the same year) experience shared exposure to a common obesity-related milieu during the critical early years of development-e.g., secular beliefs and feeding practices, adverse chemical exposures, food access and nutrition assistance policies-that set the stage for a shared trajectory of obesity as they mature. Fundamental cause theory suggests that inequitable distribution of recent efforts to stem the rise in child obesity may exacerbate cohort-based disparities over time. METHODS Data were from electronic health records spanning 2007-2016 linked to birth records for children ages 2-19 years. We used hierarchical age-period-cohort models to investigate cohort effects on disparities in obesity related to maternal education. We hypothesized that maternal education-based disparities in prevalence of obesity would be larger among more recent birth cohorts. RESULTS Sex-stratified models adjusted for race/ethnicity showed substantial obesity disparities by maternal education that were evident even at young ages: prevalence among children with maternal education
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
Pediatric Obesity
Adolescent
Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
Ethnic group
Mothers
Medicine (miscellaneous)
030209 endocrinology & metabolism
Young Adult
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Cohort Effect
parasitic diseases
Humans
Medicine
030212 general & internal medicine
Child obesity
Child
Nutrition and Dietetics
business.industry
medicine.disease
Obesity
Maternal education
Cohort effect
Child, Preschool
Cohort
Educational Status
Birth Cohort
Female
Birth records
business
Birth cohort
Demography
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14765497 and 03070565
- Volume :
- 45
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- International Journal of Obesity
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....c1a5b9fc8f7b1dd162678e7361d920cb