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Concordance of weight status between mothers and children: A secondary analysis of the Pakistan Demographic and Health Survey VII

Familial concordance of nutritional status is an emerging field of study that may guide the development of interventions that operate beyond the individual and within the family context. Little published data exist for concordance of nutritional status within Pakistani households. We assessed the as...

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Autores principales: Alam, Faiz, Ali, Mohammed K., Patel, Shivani A., Iqbal, Romaina
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10187450/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37205423
http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2023.05.04.23289509
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description Familial concordance of nutritional status is an emerging field of study that may guide the development of interventions that operate beyond the individual and within the family context. Little published data exist for concordance of nutritional status within Pakistani households. We assessed the associations between weight status of mothers and their children in a nationally representative sample of households in Pakistan using Demographic and Health Survey data. Our analysis included 3465 mother-child dyads, restricting to children under-five years of age with body mass index (BMI) information on their mothers. We used linear regression models to assess the associations between maternal BMI category (underweight, normal weight, overweight, obese) and child’s weight-for-height z-score (WHZ), accounting for socio-demographic characteristics of mothers and children. We assessed these relationships in all children under-five and also stratified by age of children (younger than 2 years and 2 to 5 years). In all children under-five and in children 2 to 5 years, maternal BMI was positively associated with child’s WHZ, while there was no association between maternal BMI and child WHZ for children under-two. The findings indicate that the weight status of mother’s is positively associated with that of their children. These associations have implications for interventions aimed at healthy weights of families.
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spelling pubmed-101874502023-05-17 Concordance of weight status between mothers and children: A secondary analysis of the Pakistan Demographic and Health Survey VII Alam, Faiz Ali, Mohammed K. Patel, Shivani A. Iqbal, Romaina medRxiv Article Familial concordance of nutritional status is an emerging field of study that may guide the development of interventions that operate beyond the individual and within the family context. Little published data exist for concordance of nutritional status within Pakistani households. We assessed the associations between weight status of mothers and their children in a nationally representative sample of households in Pakistan using Demographic and Health Survey data. Our analysis included 3465 mother-child dyads, restricting to children under-five years of age with body mass index (BMI) information on their mothers. We used linear regression models to assess the associations between maternal BMI category (underweight, normal weight, overweight, obese) and child’s weight-for-height z-score (WHZ), accounting for socio-demographic characteristics of mothers and children. We assessed these relationships in all children under-five and also stratified by age of children (younger than 2 years and 2 to 5 years). In all children under-five and in children 2 to 5 years, maternal BMI was positively associated with child’s WHZ, while there was no association between maternal BMI and child WHZ for children under-two. The findings indicate that the weight status of mother’s is positively associated with that of their children. These associations have implications for interventions aimed at healthy weights of families. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory 2023-05-05 /pmc/articles/PMC10187450/ /pubmed/37205423 http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2023.05.04.23289509 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which allows reusers to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format, so long as attribution is given to the creator. The license allows for commercial use.
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title_short Concordance of weight status between mothers and children: A secondary analysis of the Pakistan Demographic and Health Survey VII
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10187450/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37205423
http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2023.05.04.23289509
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