Socioeconomic position and childhood-adolescent weight status in rich countries: a systematic review, 1990–2013
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2015Autor
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10.1186/s12887-015-0443-3
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Background: Childhood obesity is a major problem in rich countries due to its high prevalence and its harmful
health consequences. An exploratory analysis conducted in the PubMed database highlighted that the number of
papers published on the relationship between socioeconomic position (SEP) and childhood-adolescent weight
status had risen substantially with respect to an earlier review which ...
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Background: Childhood obesity is a major problem in rich countries due to its high prevalence and its harmful
health consequences. An exploratory analysis conducted in the PubMed database highlighted that the number of
papers published on the relationship between socioeconomic position (SEP) and childhood-adolescent weight
status had risen substantially with respect to an earlier review which had covered the period 1990–2005.
Methods: To describe the findings on the relationship between SEP and childhood-adolescent weight status in
papers published in rich countries from 1990 through 2013, studies were identified in the following databases:
PubMed; Web of Knowledge (WOK); PsycINFO; Global Health; and Embase. We included observational studies from
the 27 richest OECD countries, which covered study populations aged 0 to 21 years, and used parental education,
income and/or occupation as family SEP indicators. A total of 158 papers met the inclusion criteria and reported
134 bivariable and 90 multivariable analyses.
Results: Examination of the results yielded by the bivariable analyses showed that 60.4 % of studies found an
inverse relationship, 18.7 % of studies did not found relationship, and 20.9 % of studies found a relationship that
varied depending on another variable, such as age, sex or ethnic group; the corresponding percentages in the
multivariable analyses were 51.1, 20.0 and 27.8 %, respectively. Furthermore, 1.1 % found a positive relationship.
Conclusion: The relationship between SEP and childhood-adolescent weight status in rich countries is
predominantly inverse and the positive relationship almost has disappeared. The SEP indicator that yields the
highest proportion of inverse relationships is parents’ education. The proportion of inverse relationships is higher
when the weight status is reported by parents instead using objective measurements. [--]
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Childhood obesity,
Socioeconomic position,
Systematic review,
Rich countries
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BioMed Central
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BMC Pediatrics (2015) 15:129
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Universidad Pública de Navarra. Departamento de Sociología /
Nafarroako Unibertsitate Publikoa. Soziologia Saila
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This study was conducted thanks to support from the Research Project PI11/00784 “Socioeconomic context of residence area and overweight and obesity childhood” financed by the Ministry of Science and Innovation.
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