Anthropometric and cardiometabolic risk factors in parents and child obesity in Segamat, Malaysia.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There is little evidence regarding risk factors for child obesity in Asian populations, including the role of parental anthropometric and cardiometabolic risk factors. We examined the relation between parental risk factors and child obesity in a Malaysian population.

Methods

We used data from health and demographic surveillance conducted by the South East Asia Community Observatory in Segamat, Malaysia. Analyses included 9207 individuals (4806 children, 2570 mothers and 1831 fathers). Child obesity was defined based on the World Health Organization 2007 reference. We assessed the relation between parental anthropometric (overweight, obesity and central obesity) and cardiometabolic (systolic hypertension, diastolic hypertension and hyperglycaemia) risk factors and

SUBMITTER: Partap U 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5837730 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature