ArticleInternational journal of obesity (2005)2010
No evidence of large differences in mother-daughter and father-son body mass index concordance in a large UK birth cohort.
Article in International journal of obesity (2005), 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.
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- Familial correlation and aggregation of body mass index and blood pressure in Chinese Han population.BMC public health · 2013Article
- Parent-offspring body mass index associations in the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study: a family-based approach to studying the role of the intrauterine environment in childhood adiposity.American journal of epidemiology · 2012Article
- Evidence-based obesity prevention in childhood and adolescence: critique of recent etiological studies, preventive interventions, and policies.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2012Review
- Pathogenesis and prevention of type 2 diabetes: parental determinants, breastfeeding, and early childhood nutrition.Current diabetes reports · 2012Review
- Intergenerational change and familial aggregation of body mass index.European journal of epidemiology · 2012Article
- Associations between grip strength of parents and their 4-year-old children: findings from the Southampton Women's Survey.Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology · 2012Article
- Familial associations of adiposity: findings from a cross-sectional study of 12,181 parental-offspring trios from Belarus.PloS one · 2011Article
- Gender-assortative weight gain: reply to Leary, Smith and Ness.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2011Article
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Abstract
It has recently been suggested that there are substantial differences in mother-daughter and father-son associations of body mass index and obesity among contemporary UK children, but much larger studies of older cohorts have failed to find evidence of substantial sex-specific effects. We have tested this hypothesis using the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children, a large contemporary cohort. Our analyses are based on 4654 complete parent-offspring trios (2323 with male offspring and 2331 with female offspring, all aged approximately 7.5 years). We found maternal body mass index to be a little more strongly associated with female than with male offspring body mass index (beta=0.18 (95% confidence interval 0.16-0.20) for females vs 0.13 (0.12, 0.15) for males). However, associations between paternal body mass index and male compared with female offspring were very similar (beta=0.16 (0.14, 0.19) for females vs 0.15 (0.12, 0.17) for males). Hence, our study suggests that there is no compelling reason to integrate the belief that there are large differences in parent-offspring body mass index associations with obesity prevention strategies.
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