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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PEDIATRIC OBESITY
Volume 1, Issue 1, Pages 59-61Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1080/17477160600569339
Keywords
obesity; body composition; fat mass; social class; children
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- Medical Research Council [G9815508] Funding Source: Medline
- Wellcome Trust Funding Source: Medline
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Studies of the social patterning of obesity in children using body mass index have reported inconsistent results. We explored the association of social class with fat mass and lean mass in a contemporary cohort of children measured using dual energy X-ray absorptiometry. We observed a clear social gradient of fat mass (with children of higher social class having a lower fat mass), but no gradient in lean mass or trunk fat mass. Our data show that inequalities in adiposity are present in primary school children and suggest that social inequalities in childhood obesity may have been underestimated in previous studies.
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