The development of youth-onset severe obesity in urban US girls.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To understand the incidence and persistence of severe obesity (≥1.2× 95^th BMI percentile-for-age) in girls across the transition to adolescence, and map developmental trajectories of adolescent severe obesity in a high-risk sample.

Methods

We examined ten years of prospectively collected data from a population sample of urban girls (n=2,226; 53% African American, aged 7-10 in 2003-2004). We determined severe obesity prevalence and incidence by age. Logistic regression evaluated for secular trend in the association between age and severe obesity prevalence. Unconditional latent growth curve models (LGCMs) compared BMI development through the adolescence transition between girls with severe obesity versus healthy BMI.

Results

Severe obesity prevalen

SUBMITTER: McTigue KM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4617672 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature