Association of Racial Discrimination With Adiposity in Children and Adolescents.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Childhood obesity is a major public health issue and is disproportionately prevalent among children from minority racial and ethnic groups. Personally mediated racism (commonly referred to as racial discrimination) is a known stressor that has been linked to higher body mass index (BMI; calculated as weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared) in adults, but little is known about the association of racial discrimination and childhood and adolescent adiposity.

Objective

To assess the prospective association between self-reported experiences of racial discrimination and adiposity (BMI and waist circumference) in a large sample of children and adolescents in the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study.

Design, setting, and participants

SUBMITTER: Cuevas AG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10336613 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature