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    The stability of weight status through the early to middle childhood years in Australia: a longitudinal study.

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    Wheaton, N; Millar, L; Allender, S; Nichols, M
    Date
    2015-04-28
    Source Title
    BMJ Open
    Publisher
    BMJ
    University of Melbourne Author/s
    Millar, Lynne
    Affiliation
    Medicine and Radiology
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    Wheaton, N., Millar, L., Allender, S. & Nichols, M. (2015). The stability of weight status through the early to middle childhood years in Australia: a longitudinal study.. BMJ Open, 5 (4), pp.e006963-. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2014-006963.
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    http://hdl.handle.net/11343/254956
    DOI
    10.1136/bmjopen-2014-006963
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    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4420983
    Abstract
    OBJECTIVES: To investigate the sociodemographic and behavioural factors associated with incidence, persistence or remission of obesity in a longitudinal sample of Australian children aged 4-10 years. SETTING: Nationally representative Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC). PARTICIPANTS: The sample for this analysis included all children in the Kinder cohort (aged 4-5 years at wave 1) who participated in all four waves of LSAC (wave 1, 2004, aged 4-5 years; wave 2, 2006, aged 6-7 years; wave 3, 2008, aged 8-9 years and wave 4, 2010, aged 10-11 years). Of the 4983 children who participated in the baseline (wave 1) survey, 4169 (83.7%) children completed all four waves of data collection. PRIMARY AND SECONDARY OUTCOME MEASURES: Movement of children between weight status categories over time and individual-level predictors of weight status change (sociodemographic characteristics, selected dietary and activity behaviours). RESULTS: The study found tracking of weight status across this period of childhood. There was an inverse association observed between socioeconomic position and persistence of overweight/obesity. Sugar-sweetened beverages and fruit and vegetable intake and screen time appeared to be important predictors of stronger tracking. CONCLUSIONS: Overweight and obesity established early in childhood tracks strongly to the middle childhood years in Australia, particularly among children of lower socioeconomic position and children participating in some unhealthy behaviour patterns.

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