Influence of parental physical activity on offspring's nutritional status: an intergenerational study in the 1993 Pelotas birth cohort.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To investigate the influence of parental physical activity on offspring's nutritional status in the 1993 Pelotas (Brazil) birth cohort.

Design

Birth cohort study.

Setting

The main outcomes were overweight and obesity status of children. The main exposure was parental physical activity over time, measured during the 11, 15 and 18 years of age follow-ups. The exposure was operationalised as cumulative, and the most recent measure before the birth of child. We adjusted Poisson regression models with robust variance to evaluate crude and adjusted associations between parental physical activity and offspring's nutritional status. All analyses were stratified according to the sex of the parent.

Participants

A total of 874 members from the 1993 Pelotas (Braz

SUBMITTER: Blumenberg C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9991797 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature