ArticleFrontiers in public health2025
A novel hypothesis on the relationship between maternal education and obesity in children; the mediating role of maternal and child self-control-ABIS a population-based cohort study.
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- Global burden and risk factors of childhood cardiovascular disease (1990-2021).Frontiers in public health · 2025Review
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Background: Low socioeconomic status, measured by maternal education, increases the risk of obesity in children in high-income countries. This paper presents our hypothesis that self-control mediates the observed association. Methods: Data from the All Babies in Southeast Sweden (ABIS) cohort, which includes children born 1st Oct 1997-1st Oct 1999 in southeast Sweden with data on BMI, were available for Results: We found that in the relationship between maternal education and BMI/obesity risk of the child at age 19, two indirect paths, maternal self-control and child self-control, mediated 85% of the effect on BMI (model 1) and 87.5% of the effect of obesity risk. Adding maternal BMI (model 2) to the latent maternal self-control variable increased the mediated indirect effect to 95% of the total effect for BMI and 94% of the total obesity risk. Conclusion: We conclude that maternal self-control and child self-control may mediate most of the effect of low maternal education on BMI/obesity at age 19. The central role of self-control in health inequality, especially for the persistence of health inequalities in the welfare state, may have important implications and should be included when theories of health inequalities are constructed. However, future studies are needed to test the hypothesis described in this paper using additional measures of self-control and executive functions.
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