Screen Time from Adolescence to Adulthood and Cardiometabolic Disease: a Prospective Cohort Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Previous studies have analyzed the relationship between screen time and cardiometabolic disease risk factors among adolescents, but few have examined the longitudinal effects of screen time on cardiometabolic health into adulthood using nationally representative data.

Objective

To determine prospective associations between screen time and later cardiometabolic disease over a 24-year period using a nationally representative adolescent cohort.

Design

Longitudinal prospective cohort data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) collected from 1994 to 2018.

Participants

Adolescents aged 11-18 years old at baseline (1994-1995) followed for 24 years.

Main measures

Predictors: screen time (five repeated measures

SUBMITTER: Nagata JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10272026 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature