Association of Self-regulation With Obesity in Boys vs Girls in a US National Sample.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Poor self-regulation in childhood is associated with increased risk of obesity. However, studies have assumed that greater self-regulation is associated with a lower obesity risk and have rarely examined differences in the association by sex.

Objectives

To examine how different levels of toddler self-regulation are associated with the prevalence of obesity at kindergarten age and whether the pattern of association is different between boys and girls.

Design, setting, and participants

This was a prospective cohort study using data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort, a nationally representative sample of 10 700 US children born in 2001 and followed up through kindergarten entry (2006-2007). The analytic sample included 6400 children wit

SUBMITTER: Anderson SE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6143067 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature