The long-arm of adolescent weight status on later life depressive symptoms.

ABSTRACT:

Background

given the increase in worldwide obesity among children and adolescents, the long-term consequences of childhood obesity on the risk of adverse health outcomes in later life has garnered increased attention. Much of the work on earlier life weight status and later life health has focused on cardiovascular-related outcomes in mid- to late-adulthood; however, little is known about the later life mental health consequences of adolescent body weight.

Methods

data came from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study. We estimated gender-stratified logistic regression models to characterise the relationship between adolescent weight status using standardised relative body mass ascertained from high school photograph portraits in 1957 and depressive symptoms at age 65 using the Cen

SUBMITTER: Martinson ML 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4846792 | biostudies-literature | 2016 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature