Weight trajectories and obesity remission among school-aged children.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Many studies examining weight trajectories have used adiposity measures shown to be problematic for trajectory analysis in children with obesity, and remission of obesity remains poorly understood.

Objectives

To describe weight trajectories for school-aged children, the rate of obesity remission and factors associated.

Methods

Children between 6 and 11 years of age with ≥3 valid height and weight measurements from an Oregon hospital-system over a minimum six-month period were included. Percent distance from the median body mass index (BMI) was used for modeling. Latent class analysis and linear mixed models were used to classify children based on their weight trajectory.

Results

We included 11,247 subjects with a median of 2.1 years of follow-up, wit

SUBMITTER: Foster BA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10511102 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature