ArticlePublic health nutrition2021
Parent-child resemblance in BMI and obesity status and its correlates in China.
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- Factors Associated With the Nutritional Status of Children and Their Parents: A Cross-Sectional Analysis With Families Registered in Family Health Units, ES/2021.Journal of obesity · 2026Article
- Association of Parental Feeding Styles with Body Composition Among Children in Two Regions in China.Nutrients · 2025Article
- Regional and urban‒rural differences in childhood growth trajectories and the role of family in China.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Association between parental unhealthy behaviors and offspring's cardiovascular health status: Results from a cross-sectional analysis of parent-offspring pairs in China.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2022Article
- Profiles and predictors of child neurodevelopment and anthropometry: The maternal-infant research on environmental chemicals study.Journal of multimorbidity and comorbidityArticle
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Abstract
objectiveExamine mother-son, mother-daughter, father-son and father-daughter resemblance in weight status, and potential modifying effects of socio-demographic and childcare characteristics.
designCross-sectional study.
settingSchool.
participants1973 school-age children and their parents from five mega-cities across China in 2017.
resultsPearson correlation coefficients (r) for BMI of father-son, father-daughter, mother-son and mother-daughter pairs were 0·16, 0·24, 0·26 and 0·24, respectively, while their weighted kappa coefficients (k) were 0·09, 0·14, 0·04 and 0·15, respectively. Children aged 6-9 years (r ranged from 0·30 to 0·35) had larger BMI correlation with their parents than their counterparts aged 10-14 years or 15-17 years (r ranged from 0·15 to 0·24). Children residing at home (r ranged from 0·17 to 0·27) had greater BMI correlations with their parents than children residing at school/other places. BMI correlation coefficients were significant if children were mainly cared for by their mothers (r ranged from 0·17 to 0·29) but non-significant if they were mainly cared for by others. Only children who ate the same meal as their parents 'most times' (r ranged from 0·17 to 0·27) or had dinner with their parents 'at most times' (r ranged from 0·21 to 0·27) had significant BMI correlation with their parents. Similarly, children who had dinner with their parents 'most times' but not 'sometimes,' had significant BMI correlation coefficients.
conclusionsParent-child resemblance in weight status was modest and varied by child age, gender, primary caregiver, whether having similar food or dinner with parents in China.
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