The effects of hypothetical behavioral interventions on the 13-year incidence of overweight/obesity in children and adolescents.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In view of the high burden of childhood overweight/obesity (OW/OB), it is important to identify targets for interventions that may have the greatest effects on preventing OW/OB in early life. Using methods of causal inference, we studied the effects of sustained behavioral interventions on the long-term risk of developing OW/OB based on a large European cohort.

Methods

Our sample comprised 10 877 children aged 2 to < 10 years at baseline who participated in the well-phenotyped IDEFICS/I.Family cohort. Children were followed from 2007/08 to 2020/21. Applying the parametric g-formula, the 13-year risk of developing OW/OB was estimated under various sustained hypothetical interventions on physical activity, screen time, dietary intake and sleep duration. Intervention

SUBMITTER: Bornhorst C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10463721 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature