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Higher Household Income and the Availability of Electronic Devices and Transport at Home Are Associated with Higher Waist Circumference in Colombian Children: The ACFIES Study

Background: The current “epidemic” of childhood obesity is described as being driven by modern lifestyles with associated socioeconomic and environmental changes that modify dietary habits, discourage physical activity and encourage sedentary behaviors. Objective: To evaluate the association between...

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Autores principales: Gómez-Arbeláez, Diego, Camacho, Paul A., Cohen, Daniel D., Rincón-Romero, Katherine, Alvarado-Jurado, Laura, Pinzón, Sandra, Duperly, John, López-Jaramillo, Patricio
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2014
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3945571/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24514426
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph110201834
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author Gómez-Arbeláez, Diego
Camacho, Paul A.
Cohen, Daniel D.
Rincón-Romero, Katherine
Alvarado-Jurado, Laura
Pinzón, Sandra
Duperly, John
López-Jaramillo, Patricio
author_facet Gómez-Arbeláez, Diego
Camacho, Paul A.
Cohen, Daniel D.
Rincón-Romero, Katherine
Alvarado-Jurado, Laura
Pinzón, Sandra
Duperly, John
López-Jaramillo, Patricio
author_sort Gómez-Arbeláez, Diego
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description Background: The current “epidemic” of childhood obesity is described as being driven by modern lifestyles with associated socioeconomic and environmental changes that modify dietary habits, discourage physical activity and encourage sedentary behaviors. Objective: To evaluate the association between household income and the availability of electronic devices and transport at home, and the values of waist circumference (WC), as an indicator of abdominal obesity, in children and adolescents from Bucaramanga, Colombia. Methods: Cross-sectional study of public elementary and high school population, of low-middle socioeconomic status. Results: A total of 668 schoolchildren were recruited. After adjusting for potential confounders, significant positive associations between waist circumference and higher household income (p = 0.011), and waist circumference and the availability of electronic devices and transport at home (p = 0.026) were found. Conclusions: In low-middle socioeconomic status schoolchildren in a developing country, those from relatively more affluent families had greater waist circumference, an association that is opposite to that observed in developed countries. This finding could be related to higher income family’s ability to purchase electronic devices and motorized transport which discourage physical activity and for their children to buy desirable and more costly western fast food.
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spelling pubmed-39455712014-03-10 Higher Household Income and the Availability of Electronic Devices and Transport at Home Are Associated with Higher Waist Circumference in Colombian Children: The ACFIES Study Gómez-Arbeláez, Diego Camacho, Paul A. Cohen, Daniel D. Rincón-Romero, Katherine Alvarado-Jurado, Laura Pinzón, Sandra Duperly, John López-Jaramillo, Patricio Int J Environ Res Public Health Background: The current “epidemic” of childhood obesity is described as being driven by modern lifestyles with associated socioeconomic and environmental changes that modify dietary habits, discourage physical activity and encourage sedentary behaviors. Objective: To evaluate the association between household income and the availability of electronic devices and transport at home, and the values of waist circumference (WC), as an indicator of abdominal obesity, in children and adolescents from Bucaramanga, Colombia. Methods: Cross-sectional study of public elementary and high school population, of low-middle socioeconomic status. Results: A total of 668 schoolchildren were recruited. After adjusting for potential confounders, significant positive associations between waist circumference and higher household income (p = 0.011), and waist circumference and the availability of electronic devices and transport at home (p = 0.026) were found. Conclusions: In low-middle socioeconomic status schoolchildren in a developing country, those from relatively more affluent families had greater waist circumference, an association that is opposite to that observed in developed countries. This finding could be related to higher income family’s ability to purchase electronic devices and motorized transport which discourage physical activity and for their children to buy desirable and more costly western fast food. MDPI 2014-02-07 2014-02 /pmc/articles/PMC3945571/ /pubmed/24514426 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph110201834 Text en © 2014 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
spellingShingle Gómez-Arbeláez, Diego
Camacho, Paul A.
Cohen, Daniel D.
Rincón-Romero, Katherine
Alvarado-Jurado, Laura
Pinzón, Sandra
Duperly, John
López-Jaramillo, Patricio
Higher Household Income and the Availability of Electronic Devices and Transport at Home Are Associated with Higher Waist Circumference in Colombian Children: The ACFIES Study
title Higher Household Income and the Availability of Electronic Devices and Transport at Home Are Associated with Higher Waist Circumference in Colombian Children: The ACFIES Study
title_full Higher Household Income and the Availability of Electronic Devices and Transport at Home Are Associated with Higher Waist Circumference in Colombian Children: The ACFIES Study
title_fullStr Higher Household Income and the Availability of Electronic Devices and Transport at Home Are Associated with Higher Waist Circumference in Colombian Children: The ACFIES Study
title_full_unstemmed Higher Household Income and the Availability of Electronic Devices and Transport at Home Are Associated with Higher Waist Circumference in Colombian Children: The ACFIES Study
title_short Higher Household Income and the Availability of Electronic Devices and Transport at Home Are Associated with Higher Waist Circumference in Colombian Children: The ACFIES Study
title_sort higher household income and the availability of electronic devices and transport at home are associated with higher waist circumference in colombian children: the acfies study
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3945571/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24514426
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph110201834
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