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Prevalences of cardiometabolic risk and lifestyle factors in young parents: evidence from a German birth cohort study

BACKGROUND: Studies show that parents significantly impact their children’s health through their cardiometabolic risk profile and health behavior. There is only little information about the prevalence of cardiometabolic risk factors and lifestyle factors among new parents yet. The aims of this study...

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Autores principales: Brunner, Jana, Fill Malfertheiner, Sara, Brandstetter, Susanne, Seelbach-Göbel, Birgit, Apfelbacher, Christian, Melter, Michael, Kabesch, Michael, Baessler, Andrea
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9641866/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36344912
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12872-022-02915-z
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author Brunner, Jana
Fill Malfertheiner, Sara
Brandstetter, Susanne
Seelbach-Göbel, Birgit
Apfelbacher, Christian
Melter, Michael
Kabesch, Michael
Baessler, Andrea
author_facet Brunner, Jana
Fill Malfertheiner, Sara
Brandstetter, Susanne
Seelbach-Göbel, Birgit
Apfelbacher, Christian
Melter, Michael
Kabesch, Michael
Baessler, Andrea
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description BACKGROUND: Studies show that parents significantly impact their children’s health through their cardiometabolic risk profile and health behavior. There is only little information about the prevalence of cardiometabolic risk factors and lifestyle factors among new parents yet. The aims of this study are therefore to evaluate the prevalences of cardiometabolic risk factors in parents of infants in Germany and to examine their lifestyle and health behavior. METHODS: In the KUNO-Kids health study, an ongoing birth cohort, parents (n = 930 mothers and 769 fathers) were asked about cardiometabolic risk factors (obesity/hypertension/type 2 diabetes mellitus) and lifestyle factors (dietary/sports/smoking habits/alcohol consumption) during the first year after the birth of their children via questionnaires. Chi-square as well as fisher exact tests were conducted to analyse associations between lifestyle factors and cardiometabolic risk factors. RESULTS: 34.2% of mothers and 58.5% of fathers were overweight or obese. In 11.8% of the families, at least one parent suffered from hypertension, in 2.4% from type 2 diabetes mellitus. One year after delivery, 8.5% of mothers were smoking, 6.9% showed a risky alcohol consumption (> 10 g/d). 16.0% of fathers were smoking 4 weeks after childbirth, 10.7% showed risky alcohol consumption (> 20 g/d). 21.6% of mothers carried out sports activity for more than 2 h a week then. Parental hypertension was linked to a higher prevalence of risky alcohol consumption, obesity to a lower prevalence of daily fruits consumption. CONCLUSIONS: Cardiometabolic risk factors were widespread among new parents with obesity and overweight having the highest prevalences. A considerable number of parents also practiced an unhealthy lifestyle showing that there is potential for improvement to promote the healthy development of their children. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12872-022-02915-z.
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spelling pubmed-96418662022-11-15 Prevalences of cardiometabolic risk and lifestyle factors in young parents: evidence from a German birth cohort study Brunner, Jana Fill Malfertheiner, Sara Brandstetter, Susanne Seelbach-Göbel, Birgit Apfelbacher, Christian Melter, Michael Kabesch, Michael Baessler, Andrea BMC Cardiovasc Disord Research BACKGROUND: Studies show that parents significantly impact their children’s health through their cardiometabolic risk profile and health behavior. There is only little information about the prevalence of cardiometabolic risk factors and lifestyle factors among new parents yet. The aims of this study are therefore to evaluate the prevalences of cardiometabolic risk factors in parents of infants in Germany and to examine their lifestyle and health behavior. METHODS: In the KUNO-Kids health study, an ongoing birth cohort, parents (n = 930 mothers and 769 fathers) were asked about cardiometabolic risk factors (obesity/hypertension/type 2 diabetes mellitus) and lifestyle factors (dietary/sports/smoking habits/alcohol consumption) during the first year after the birth of their children via questionnaires. Chi-square as well as fisher exact tests were conducted to analyse associations between lifestyle factors and cardiometabolic risk factors. RESULTS: 34.2% of mothers and 58.5% of fathers were overweight or obese. In 11.8% of the families, at least one parent suffered from hypertension, in 2.4% from type 2 diabetes mellitus. One year after delivery, 8.5% of mothers were smoking, 6.9% showed a risky alcohol consumption (> 10 g/d). 16.0% of fathers were smoking 4 weeks after childbirth, 10.7% showed risky alcohol consumption (> 20 g/d). 21.6% of mothers carried out sports activity for more than 2 h a week then. Parental hypertension was linked to a higher prevalence of risky alcohol consumption, obesity to a lower prevalence of daily fruits consumption. CONCLUSIONS: Cardiometabolic risk factors were widespread among new parents with obesity and overweight having the highest prevalences. A considerable number of parents also practiced an unhealthy lifestyle showing that there is potential for improvement to promote the healthy development of their children. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12872-022-02915-z. BioMed Central 2022-11-07 /pmc/articles/PMC9641866/ /pubmed/36344912 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12872-022-02915-z Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Brunner, Jana
Fill Malfertheiner, Sara
Brandstetter, Susanne
Seelbach-Göbel, Birgit
Apfelbacher, Christian
Melter, Michael
Kabesch, Michael
Baessler, Andrea
Prevalences of cardiometabolic risk and lifestyle factors in young parents: evidence from a German birth cohort study
title Prevalences of cardiometabolic risk and lifestyle factors in young parents: evidence from a German birth cohort study
title_full Prevalences of cardiometabolic risk and lifestyle factors in young parents: evidence from a German birth cohort study
title_fullStr Prevalences of cardiometabolic risk and lifestyle factors in young parents: evidence from a German birth cohort study
title_full_unstemmed Prevalences of cardiometabolic risk and lifestyle factors in young parents: evidence from a German birth cohort study
title_short Prevalences of cardiometabolic risk and lifestyle factors in young parents: evidence from a German birth cohort study
title_sort prevalences of cardiometabolic risk and lifestyle factors in young parents: evidence from a german birth cohort study
topic Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9641866/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36344912
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12872-022-02915-z
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