ArticleJournal of epidemiology and community health2009
Obesity, race/ethnicity and life course socioeconomic status across the transition from adolescence to adulthood.
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- The unbuilt environment: culture moderates the built environment for physical activity.BMC public health · 2016Article
- College Women's Weight-related Behavior Profiles Differ by Sexual Identity.American journal of health behavior · 2015Article
- Marriage and parenthood in relation to obesogenic neighborhood trajectories: The CARDIA study.Health & place · 2015Article
- Sleep characteristics, body mass index, and risk for hypertension in young adolescents.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2015Article
- Associations of family and neighborhood socioeconomic characteristics with longitudinal adiposity patterns in a biracial cohort of adolescent girls.Biodemography and social biology · 2015Article
- Using latent class analysis to develop a model of the relationship between socioeconomic position and ethnicity: cross-sectional analyses from a multi-ethnic birth cohort study.BMC public health · 2014Article
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Abstract
backgroundDifferences in the association of socioeconomic status (SES) with obesity may underlie the racial/ethnic disparities in obesity that increase dramatically across the transition to adulthood in the United States. The aim of this study was to examine racial/ethnic differences in the influence of life course SES on longitudinal obesity patterns from adolescence to adulthood.
methodsLatent class analysis was used on a nationally representative, diverse sample of 12 940 adolescents followed into young adulthood (mean age = 21.7 years) to identify life course SES group profiles based on SES data in adolescence and young adulthood. Gender-stratified multinomial logistic regression models estimated the association of SES groups with obesity incidence and persistence versus staying non-obese.
resultsNo significant interactions with race/ethnicity were observed, although racial/ethnic minorities had the highest obesity risk across SES groups. Racial/ethnic-pooled associations between disadvantaged SES exposure and higher obesity risk were strong but differed by gender. Males with a disadvantaged background who experienced early transitions into the labour force, marriage and residential independence had the highest risk of obesity incidence (relative risk ratio (RRR) = 1.64; 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.12 to 2.40), while females exposed to persistent adversity were at highest risk (RRR = 3.01, 95% CI 1.95 to 4.66). In general, SES group membership had a stronger relationship with obesity persistence than incidence.
conclusionsThe relationship between SES and obesity patterns is similar across race/ethnicity and differs by gender during the transition to adulthood. However, stronger associations with obesity persistence and enduring racial/ethnic disparities in obesity risk across SES groups suggest that these social factors play a larger role in disparities earlier in the life course.
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