Overweight & Obesity in Childhood - Adult Obesity
Overweight & Obesity Study Aim
To examine if being overweight in childhood increases adult obesity and
risk of disease.
Obesity & Overweight Study Subjects
City of Newcastle upon Tyne. Participants: 932 members of thousand families
1947 birth cohort, of whom 412 attended for clinical examination age 50.
Obesity & Overweight Results
Body mass index at age 9 years was significantly correlated with body
mass index age 50 but not with percentage body fat age 50. After adult
body mass index had been adjusted for, body mass index at age 9 showed
a significant inverse association with measures of lipid and glucose metabolism
in both sexes and with blood pressure in women. However, after adjustment
for adult percentage fat instead of body mass index, only the inverse
associations with triglycerides and total cholesterol in women remained
significant.
Obesity & Overweight Conclusion
Little tracking from childhood overweight to adulthood obesity was found
when using a measure of fatness that was independent of build. Only children
who were obese at 13 showed an increased risk of obesity as adults. No
excess adult health risk from childhood or teenage overweight was found.
Being thin in childhood offered no protection against adult fatness, and
the thinnest children tended to have the highest adult risk at every level
of adult obesity.
Source: Sir James Spence Institute of Child
Health, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle
2001
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