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PREVENTIVE MEDICINE
卷 89, 期 -, 页码 146-153出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2016.05.028
关键词
BMI; Childhood; Environment; Counterfactual analysis; Parental BMI; Public health
资金
- Agence Nationale de Recherche (Incorporation Biologique et Inegalites Sociales de Sante) [ANR-12-DSSA-0004]
- Economic and Social Research Council [ES/M001660/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) [ANR-12-DSSA-0004] Funding Source: Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR)
- ESRC [ES/M001660/1] Funding Source: UKRI
This study has two objectives. First, to analyse the respective roles of parental BMI and the wider environment on children'sBMI across childhood, using a counterfactual analysis. Second, to determine if the correlations between parents and offspring BMI are partly environmental. We used data on 4437 girls and 4337 boys born in 2000-2001 in the UK and included in the Millennium Cohort Study. Children's BMI was measured at ages 3 years, 5 years, 7 years, and 11 years. We described the environment using social class and behaviours within the family. At the age of 3, there was no link between the environment and children's BMI. In contrast, there was a clear link between the environment and BMI slopes between 3 and 11 years of age. At the age of 11, we calculated that if all children had the most favourable environment, mean BMI would be reduced by 0.91 kg/m(2) (95% CI: 0.57-1.26) for boys and by 1.65 kg/m(2) (95% CI: 1.28-2.02) for girls. Associations between parents' and offspring BMI remained unchanged after adjustment for environmental variables. Conversely, the link between the environment and children'sBMI is partly reduced after adjustment for parental BMI. This confirms that parental BMI is partly a broad proxy of the environment. We highlighted that if every child's environment was at its most favourable, the mean BMI would be significantly reduced. Thus, the recent rise is likely to be reversible. (C) 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc.
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