Risk factors for overweight and obesity in children aged 2–6 years
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Meda Kondolot
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Selim Kurtoğlu
Abstract
Background:
Understanding risk factors that may vary culturally can help improve preventive strategies for obesity. This is the first cross-sectional study aimed to determine the risk factors for overweight/obesity in children aged 2–6 years in a central Anatolian city in Turkey.
Methods:
A total of 1582 children (1351 healthy, 231 overweight/obese) aged 2–6 years were included from the Anthropometry of Turkish Children aged 0–6 years database. Age, gender, birth weight, birth order, mother’s age, mother’s body mass index (BMI), weight gain of mothers during pregnancy, presence of gestational diabetes, breastfeeding duration, history of formula feeding, mother’s and father’s education, mother’s job, monthly income, smoking at home and physical activity, sleep duration and duration of television (TV) watching of the children were evaluated as independent risk factors. Logistic regression analyses were performed to investigate risk factors for overweight/obesity.
Results:
Having a high family income compared to bad [odds ratio (OR)=1.96; 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.237–3.106], increased the time of watching TV during the weekend (OR=1.094; 95% CI: 1.032–1.159), and similar physical activity level according to their peers compared to less (OR=2.957; 95% CI: 1.056–8.282) were found to be significantly associated with a higher risk of overweight/obesity in children aged 2–6 years old.
Conclusions:
The early childhood period seems to be important in the establishment of healthy behavioral patterns, especially limitation of TV watching and encouragement of physical activity. Obesogenic environment in families with high incomes need to be revealed.
Author contributions: All the authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this submitted manuscript and approved submission.
Research funding: None declared.
Employment or leadership: None declared.
Honorarium: None declared.
Competing interests: The funding organization(s) played no role in the study design; in the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; in the writing of the report; or in the decision to submit the report for publication.
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- Frontmatter
- Review
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- Original Articles
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- Possible effects of neonatal vitamin B12 status on TSH-screening program: a cross-sectional study from Turkey
- Effects of L-thyroxine treatment on heart functions in infants with congenital hypothyroidism
- Hyperandrogenism in adolescent girls: relationship with the somatotrophic axis
- Plasma kisspeptin and ghrelin levels in puberty variant cases
- Genotype-phenotype correlation in paediatric pheochromocytoma and paraganglioma: a single centre experience from India
- Short Communication
- Provider variability in the initial diagnosis and treatment of congenital hypothyroidism
- Case Reports
- Giant parathyroid adenoma associated with severe hypercalcemia in an adolescent patient
- Personalized precision medicine in extreme preterm infants with transient neonatal diabetes mellitus
- Pseudohypoaldosteronism types I and II: little more than a name in common
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