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Residential mobility, socioeconomic context and body mass index in a cohort of urban South African adolescents
Adolescents who are changing residence, as well as their social and economic circumstances may experience lifestyle changes that have an effect on body composition outcomes such as undernutrition, overweight or obesity. This paper uses data from Birth to Twenty, a birth cohort of South African urban...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3895683/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23211581 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2012.09.016 |
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author | Ginsburg, Carren Griffiths, Paula L. Richter, Linda M. Norris, Shane A. |
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description | Adolescents who are changing residence, as well as their social and economic circumstances may experience lifestyle changes that have an effect on body composition outcomes such as undernutrition, overweight or obesity. This paper uses data from Birth to Twenty, a birth cohort of South African urban children, to determine the relationship between residential mobility and body mass index (BMI) amongst Black adolescents aged 15 (n=1613), and to examine the role of changes in household socioeconomic status (SES). The prevalence of overweight and obesity in the sample was 25% in females and 8% in males. Amongst the females, a strong positive association between residential mobility and BMI was observed for those who also experienced an increase in household SES between birth and 15 years (β=0.42, SE=0.13), while no effect was identified for males. The study shows the potential for environmental change and increased resources to influence the risk for obesity. It also highlights the value in considering the range of social environmental factors and changes across the early life course that might play a part in evolving nutritional patterns in urban transitioning environments. |
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spelling | pubmed-38956832014-01-21 Residential mobility, socioeconomic context and body mass index in a cohort of urban South African adolescents Ginsburg, Carren Griffiths, Paula L. Richter, Linda M. Norris, Shane A. Health Place Article Adolescents who are changing residence, as well as their social and economic circumstances may experience lifestyle changes that have an effect on body composition outcomes such as undernutrition, overweight or obesity. This paper uses data from Birth to Twenty, a birth cohort of South African urban children, to determine the relationship between residential mobility and body mass index (BMI) amongst Black adolescents aged 15 (n=1613), and to examine the role of changes in household socioeconomic status (SES). The prevalence of overweight and obesity in the sample was 25% in females and 8% in males. Amongst the females, a strong positive association between residential mobility and BMI was observed for those who also experienced an increase in household SES between birth and 15 years (β=0.42, SE=0.13), while no effect was identified for males. The study shows the potential for environmental change and increased resources to influence the risk for obesity. It also highlights the value in considering the range of social environmental factors and changes across the early life course that might play a part in evolving nutritional patterns in urban transitioning environments. Elsevier 2013-01 /pmc/articles/PMC3895683/ /pubmed/23211581 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2012.09.016 Text en © 2013 Elsevier Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Ginsburg, Carren Griffiths, Paula L. Richter, Linda M. Norris, Shane A. Residential mobility, socioeconomic context and body mass index in a cohort of urban South African adolescents |
title | Residential mobility, socioeconomic context and body mass index in a cohort of urban South African adolescents |
title_full | Residential mobility, socioeconomic context and body mass index in a cohort of urban South African adolescents |
title_fullStr | Residential mobility, socioeconomic context and body mass index in a cohort of urban South African adolescents |
title_full_unstemmed | Residential mobility, socioeconomic context and body mass index in a cohort of urban South African adolescents |
title_short | Residential mobility, socioeconomic context and body mass index in a cohort of urban South African adolescents |
title_sort | residential mobility, socioeconomic context and body mass index in a cohort of urban south african adolescents |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3895683/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23211581 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2012.09.016 |
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