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To evaluate the tracking of adiposity from childhood to early adulthood and quantify the risk of early adult overweight associated with childhood weight and parental weight status.

July 27, 2010

Predicting obesity in early adulthood from childhood and parental obesity

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To evaluate the tracking of adiposity from childhood to early adulthood and quantify the risk of early adult overweight associated with childhood weight and parental weight status.
Conducted a longitudinal observational study following approximately 155 healthy boys and girls born in Adelaide, South Australia (1975–1976) and their parents.
Measured participant height and weight at age 2, annually from ages 4 to 8, biennially from ages 11 to 15, and at age 20; parental BMI was assessed when children were 8 years old.
Converted childhood BMI to standard deviation scores, evaluated tracking via Pearson's correlation coefficient, and estimated risk ratios for adult overweight unadjusted and adjusted for parental weight.
Tracking of BMI was firmly established from age 6 onwards to age 20 with Pearson correlation coefficients r > 0.6.
Adiposity tracking was stronger across shorter follow-up intervals and among participants with two overweight parents compared to those with one or none.
Individual childhood weight status was a more powerful predictor of weight status at age 20 than parental weight status, though adult overweight risk increased further when parents were overweight.

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Longitudinal observational study observes robust tracking of adiposity from age six to twenty, indicating that childhood weight status predicts adult obesity more strongly than parental weight.

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Magarey et al. (2010) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a127ffda2d24b27c1677417 https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.ijo.0802251

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Longitudinal observational study observes robust tracking of adiposity from age six to twenty, indicating that childhood weight status predicts adult obesity more strongly than parental weight.

Predicting obesity in early adulthood from childhood and parental obesity

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