When richer doesn't mean thinner: Ethnicity, socioeconomic position, and the risk of child obesity in the United Kingdom.

ABSTRACT:

Background

A range of studies report a robust association between family socioeconomic position and the prevalence of child overweight/obesity. On average, children from poorer backgrounds are more likely to be overweight/obese than children from more advantaged families. However, a small number of US studies have shown that, for ethnic minority children, the association is either nonexistent or reversed.

Objective

We test if the link between socioeconomic position and child overweight/obesity at age 7 is heterogeneous in the United Kingdom where rates of obesity are particularly high for some groups of ethnic minority children.

Methods

We use nationally representative data from the UK Millennium Cohort Study as well as descriptive analyses and logistic regression mod

SUBMITTER: Goisis A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8057728 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature