Association between household poverty dynamics and childhood overweight risk and health behaviours in the United States: a 8-year nationally representative longitudinal study of 16 800 children.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:No study has examined how the pattern of income dynamics influences both of children's body mass index (BMI) trajectory and health behaviours. OBJECTIVES:To examine the association between household poverty dynamics and childhood overweight risk in the USA. METHODS:Using the longitudinal data of 16 800 children (from kindergarten to the 8th grade) in the nationally representative US cohort-Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class 1998-1999, we examined the differences in BMI trajectory, weight-related health behaviours and risk of overweight in association with household poverty dynamics during follow-up (never [no experience of poverty], transient [once], recurrent [≥2 times] and persistent poor [remained]) using mixed models with fractional polynomial functions a

SUBMITTER: Min J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6191355 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature