Effects of socioeconomic change from birth to early adulthood on height and overweight

Barros, Aluísio J D; Victora, Cesar G; Horta, Bernardo Lessa; Gonçalves, Helen; Lima, Rosângela C; Lynch, John

doi:10.1093/ije/dyl160

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“…Brazilian studies found a direct association between childhood socioeconomic status and BMI in late adolescence and early adulthood in men 24,25 , and an inverse association in women 44 . Thus, although the results of cross-sectional studies are subject to reverse causality -whereby obesity can determine current socioeconomic status rather than vice-versa 4,6,8,28,30 -, the transition process described above is consistent with our finding of clearer associations in women than in men for the effects of early poverty.…”

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“…Nearly all studies on the association between socioeconomic status and obesity in adults have a cross-sectional design, in which both variables are measured simultaneously 4,6,8,23 . By reviewing the literature, we found 40 studies evaluating the relationship between childhood socioeconomic status and obesity in adulthood, of which only three were conducted in medium or low-income countries: two in Brazil 24,25 and one in China 26 . There are even fewer articles specifically evaluating the association between socioeconomic status and abdominal obesity.…”

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“…Similar results were found by Matijasevich et al (28) , who studied the trends in socio-economic inequalities and their effect on overweight prevalence The highest degree of upward mobility among those in the lower economic classes in the present study is similar to that observed in other studies using criteria other than the 'Brazil criterion' used here. For example, in the Pelotas birth cohort, subjects were observed up to the age of 19 years and were classified by family income level (11) . Further, national data show the same trend and that in 2011 Brazil reached the lowest level of economic inequality in its history (9) , mainly due to the government-sponsored Bolsa Família cash transfer programme.…”

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Effects of social mobility from childhood to adolescence on BMI

Muraro

Gonçalves-Silva

Ferreira

et al. 2015

Public Health Nutr.

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Objective: Little is known about the contribution of childhood socio-economic position (SEP) and social mobility to weight change. The present study evaluated the effect of family SEP during the pre-school years and social mobility on BMI between birth and adolescence. Design: Longitudinal. The SEP of each child's family was classified according to an asset-based wealth index as low, medium or high. Four different categories of childhood-adolescence SEP groups were created in order to examine social mobility: low-medium/high, medium-medium, medium-high and high-high/ medium. For each of these categories, BMI was tracked from birth to adolescence. Linear mixed-effects models were used to analyse the data. Setting: Cuiabá-MT, Brazil. Subjects: A population-based cohort of children born between 1994 and 1999 was assessed between 1999 and 2000, and again between 2009 and 2011. Results: A total of 1716 adolescents were followed from childhood to adolescence (71·4 % of baseline). The prevalence of overweight/obesity was 20·4 % in childhood and 27·7 % in adolescence. A higher SEP in childhood was associated with a greater prevalence of overweight in adolescence. Expressive upward social mobility occurred, mainly in the lowest SEP group. There was a greater rate of change in BMI between birth and adolescence among children with a higher SEP in childhood and children who remained in the higher SEP from childhood to adolescence. Conclusion: Individuals from a higher SEP in childhood and those who remained in the higher social classes showed greater rate of change in BMI. Thus, initial SEP was the major determinant of changes in BMI.

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“…Childhood growth, a strong predictor of adult height, is strongly determined by good nutrition and living conditions in utero and during childhood (Peck and Lundberg 1995;Li et al 2004;Barros et al 2006;Ehounoux et al 2009). On average, a man from the study birth cohorts (born between 1937 and 1948) who had good nutrition and living conditions in utero and during childhood should have attained higher stature than a man who had poor nutrition and living conditions during early life.…”

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Clinically relevant weakness in diverse populations of older adults participating in the International Mobility in Aging Study

Fernandes

Pérez‐Zepeda

Béland

et al. 2016

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The aims of this study were to compare cut points for weakness proposed by Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH) Sarcopenia Project with cut points estimated with our own data; to assess the prevalence of clinically relevant handgrip strength (HGS) weakness according to published criteria across distinct populations of older adults; to estimate the ability of HGS weakness to identify slowness. This is a cross-sectional analysis of International Mobility in Aging Study (IMIAS) involving 1935 community-dwelling older adults, between 65 and 74 years, who completed HGS and gait speed assessment. We used baseline data from Tirana (Albania), Natal (Brazil), Manizales (Colombia), Kingston (Ontario, Canada), and Saint-Hyacinthe (Quebec, Canada). Weakness was defined according to sex-specific HGS cut points associated with slowness proposed by FNIH Sarcopenia Project. Slowness was defined as gait speed <0.8 m/s. IMIAS cut points for clinical weakness had good agreement with those proposed by FNIH. Weakness prevalence across the research sites ranged from 1.1 % (Saint-Hyacinthe) to 19.2 % (Manizales) among men. Women from Manizales (13.5 %) and Natal (19.3 %) had higher prevalence of weakness than their counterparts. FNIH cut points had a strong association with slowness, for both sexes. The IMIAS population generated cut points which were close to those proposed by FNIH. There was large variability in prevalence of weakness across our research sites. The HGS cut points for weakness proposed by FNIH performed well in IMIAS populations, providing a useful tool for screening older adults at risk for functional problems.

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Effects of socioeconomic change from birth to early adulthood on height and overweight

Abstract: Socioeconomic trajectories affected both height and overweight, the effect on the latter being different for each gender.

Cited by 75 publications

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Childhood poverty and abdominal obesity in adulthood: a systematic review

Childhood poverty and abdominal obesity in adulthood: a systematic review

Effects of social mobility from childhood to adolescence on BMI

Clinically relevant weakness in diverse populations of older adults participating in the International Mobility in Aging Study

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