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Body size dynamics in young adults: 8-year follow up of cohorts in Brazil and Thailand

Increase in body size has appeared as an epidemic in Western countries and is now rapidly emerging in low- and middle-income countries, contributing to the rise in non-communicable diseases worldwide. Brazil and Thailand have gone through similar economic and health transitions, and this unique comp...

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Autores principales: Yiengprugsawan, V, Horta, B L, Motta, J V S, Gigante, D, Seubsman, S-A, Sleigh, A
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Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4973137/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27428871
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nutd.2016.24
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Horta, B L
Motta, J V S
Gigante, D
Seubsman, S-A
Sleigh, A
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description Increase in body size has appeared as an epidemic in Western countries and is now rapidly emerging in low- and middle-income countries, contributing to the rise in non-communicable diseases worldwide. Brazil and Thailand have gone through similar economic and health transitions, and this unique comparative study investigates changes in body size (body mass index) in relation to socioeconomic status in two cohorts of similar age followed from 2004/2005 to 2012/2013. At 20–24 years of age, Pelotas cohort members had a much higher prevalence of overweight and obesity (20.7 and 8.6%) than the Thai cohort (6.0 and 1.7%); these proportions rose to 34.6% and 22.9% vs 15.8% and 5.1%, respectively, in their early 30s. An association between a higher socioeconomic status and increase in overweight and obesity was observed among males; but an inverse pattern was noted for females in both cohorts and remained statistically significant after 8 years of follow up. Our comparative longitudinal analyses highlight the relationship between two middle-income settings facing rapid increases in body size (2–3 fold increase in the rate of overweight and obesity). Long-term follow up and a lifecourse approach for effective prevention of obesity will minimize adverse health burdens in later life.
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spelling pubmed-49731372016-08-12 Body size dynamics in young adults: 8-year follow up of cohorts in Brazil and Thailand Yiengprugsawan, V Horta, B L Motta, J V S Gigante, D Seubsman, S-A Sleigh, A Nutr Diabetes Short Communication Increase in body size has appeared as an epidemic in Western countries and is now rapidly emerging in low- and middle-income countries, contributing to the rise in non-communicable diseases worldwide. Brazil and Thailand have gone through similar economic and health transitions, and this unique comparative study investigates changes in body size (body mass index) in relation to socioeconomic status in two cohorts of similar age followed from 2004/2005 to 2012/2013. At 20–24 years of age, Pelotas cohort members had a much higher prevalence of overweight and obesity (20.7 and 8.6%) than the Thai cohort (6.0 and 1.7%); these proportions rose to 34.6% and 22.9% vs 15.8% and 5.1%, respectively, in their early 30s. An association between a higher socioeconomic status and increase in overweight and obesity was observed among males; but an inverse pattern was noted for females in both cohorts and remained statistically significant after 8 years of follow up. Our comparative longitudinal analyses highlight the relationship between two middle-income settings facing rapid increases in body size (2–3 fold increase in the rate of overweight and obesity). Long-term follow up and a lifecourse approach for effective prevention of obesity will minimize adverse health burdens in later life. Nature Publishing Group 2016-07 2016-07-18 /pmc/articles/PMC4973137/ /pubmed/27428871 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nutd.2016.24 Text en Copyright © 2016 The Author(s) 2016 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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title Body size dynamics in young adults: 8-year follow up of cohorts in Brazil and Thailand
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title_short Body size dynamics in young adults: 8-year follow up of cohorts in Brazil and Thailand
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4973137/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27428871
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nutd.2016.24
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