TY - JOUR
T1 - Social and behavioral factors associated with BMI and waist circumference among adolescents
T2 - The jackson heart KIDS pilot study
AU - Bruce, Marino A.
AU - Thorpe, Roland J.
AU - Teng, Fei
AU - Heitman, Elizabeth
AU - Reneker, Jennifer C.
AU - Norris, Keith C.
AU - Beech, Bettina M.
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors thank Dr. Mary Crump, Ms. Lovie Robinson, Dr. Gerrie Cannon Smith, Dr. London Thompson, Ms. Ashley Wicks, Rev. Thaddeus Williams and Mr. Willie Wright for their support of this study and participation on the Jackson Heart KIDS Pilot Study Community Advisory Board. This research was supported by grants from the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Minority Health (Prime Award Number 1 CPIMP091054); the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (R25HL126145; HHSN2682018000012I; K01HL88735); the National Institute for Minority Health and Health Disparities (U54MD000214) and the National Institute on Aging (K02AG059140; K02AG059140-02S1; K02AG059140-04S1; P30AG059298). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. The contents of this work are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the Office of Minority Health or the NIH.
Funding Information:
The authors thank Dr. Mary Crump, Ms. Lovie Robinson, Dr. Gerrie Cannon Smith, Dr. London Thompson, Ms. Ashley Wicks, Rev. Thaddeus Williams and Mr. Willie Wright for their support of this study and participation on the Jackson Heart KIDS Pilot Study Community Advisory Board. This research was supported by grants from the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Minority Health (Prime Award Number 1 CPIMP091054); the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (R25HL126145; HHSN2682018000012I; K01HL88735); the National Institute for Minority Health and Health Disparities (U54MD000214) and the National Institute on Aging (K02AG059140; K02AG059140-02S1; K02AG059140-04S1; P30AG059298). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. The contents of this work are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the Office of Minority Health or the NIH.
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PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Background: African American children and adolescents make up a disproportionately large segment of those classified as overweight and obese. The purpose of this study was to examine social and behavioral factors associated with accelerated accumulation of weight and adiposity among this group. Methods: The data for this cross-sectional study were drawn from the Jackson Heart KIDS Pilot Study - an offspring cohort study comprising 12- to 19-year-old descendants of Jackson Heart Study participants (N=212). Body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference were the outcomes of interest. Daily hassles, fruit and vegetable consumption, physical activity, television watching, parent/grandparent weight status and participant birth weight, age and sex were the independent variables included in the analyses. Results: Males and females were equally represented in the study and the mean BMI and waist circumference for adolescents in the study was 25.81±7.78 kg/m2and 83.91 ± 19.81 cm, respectively. Fully adjusted linear regression models for the total sample produced results indicating that age, television viewing, weight control, and parental weight status were positively associated with BMI and waist circumference, respectively. Findings from sex-stratified models for BMI and waist circumference indicated that the significance of coefficients for age, television viewing, and parent/grandparent weight status varied by sex. Conclusions: Knowledge is limited about how sex or gender interact with social and behavioral factors to influence African Americans' health and additional studies are needed to specify how these factors interact to accelerate weight gain and adipose tissue accumulation over the life course.
AB - Background: African American children and adolescents make up a disproportionately large segment of those classified as overweight and obese. The purpose of this study was to examine social and behavioral factors associated with accelerated accumulation of weight and adiposity among this group. Methods: The data for this cross-sectional study were drawn from the Jackson Heart KIDS Pilot Study - an offspring cohort study comprising 12- to 19-year-old descendants of Jackson Heart Study participants (N=212). Body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference were the outcomes of interest. Daily hassles, fruit and vegetable consumption, physical activity, television watching, parent/grandparent weight status and participant birth weight, age and sex were the independent variables included in the analyses. Results: Males and females were equally represented in the study and the mean BMI and waist circumference for adolescents in the study was 25.81±7.78 kg/m2and 83.91 ± 19.81 cm, respectively. Fully adjusted linear regression models for the total sample produced results indicating that age, television viewing, weight control, and parental weight status were positively associated with BMI and waist circumference, respectively. Findings from sex-stratified models for BMI and waist circumference indicated that the significance of coefficients for age, television viewing, and parent/grandparent weight status varied by sex. Conclusions: Knowledge is limited about how sex or gender interact with social and behavioral factors to influence African Americans' health and additional studies are needed to specify how these factors interact to accelerate weight gain and adipose tissue accumulation over the life course.
KW - Adolescence
KW - African Americans
KW - Minority health
KW - Pediatric obesity
KW - Population health
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U2 - 10.18865/ed.31.3.453
DO - 10.18865/ed.31.3.453
M3 - Article
C2 - 34295133
AN - SCOPUS:85111555257
SN - 1049-510X
VL - 31
SP - 453
EP - 460
JO - Ethnicity and Disease
JF - Ethnicity and Disease
IS - 3
ER -