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Body mass index in mother and child dyads and its association with household size and parents’ education in 2 urban settings of Yucatan, Mexico
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posted on 2019-05-16, 11:03 authored by Paulina Cauich-Vinas, Hugo Azcorra, Luis Rodriguez, Sudip Datta Banik, Maria Ines Varela-SilvaMaria Ines Varela-Silva, Federico DickinsonBackground: Overweight/obesity (OW/OB) coexists in mother-child dyads. However, dearth of evidence on the factors associated with this phenomenon calls for research. Objective: To analyze the association of sociodemographic factors with OW/OB in a sample of 260 Maya mother-child dyads from Yucatan,
Mexico. Methods: During 2011-2014 we measured height and weight in children
and their mothers and calculated their body mass index (BMI). The OW/OB cut-off points were defined, for mothers, as having a BMI >25kg/m2 and, for children, as having a BMI-for-age >2SD of the World Health Organization references. Mother-child dyads were grouped
according to their BMI status: 1) normal weight mother and child, 2) normal weight mother and OW/OB child, 3) OW/OB mother and normal weight child, and 4) OW/OB mother and child. A multinomial logistic regression model was used to analyze the interrelationships among BMI
status in mother-child dyads, household size and parental education. Results: OW/OB coexisted in 40% of dyads. Compared to normal weight dyads (1), each unit increase in household size and in years of maternal education decreased the risks for the coexistence of OW/OB in motherchild dyads (OR=0.72, 95% IC 0.55-0.94, P=0.015; OR=0.70, 95% IC
0.52-0.94, P=0.019, respectively). Conversely, each year increase in
paternal education increased the risk for OW/OB in dyads (OR=1.47, 95% CI 1.08-1.99, P=0.015). Conclusions: Results suggest that household size and parental education contribute to shape BMI-based nutritional status in this sample of mother-child dyads. A higher level of maternal education acts as a
protective factor against OW/OB in mothers and children.
Funding
The data reported here were collected as part of a project funded by the National Science and Technology Council of Mexico; Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología de México (Conacyt). Contract grant number: 168047.
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School
- Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
Published in
Food and Nutrition BulletinVolume
40Issue
3Pages
383 - 392Citation
CAUICH-VINAS, P. ... et al, 2019. Body mass index in mother and child dyads and its association with household size and parents’ education in 2 urban settings of Yucatan, Mexico. Food and Nutrition Bulletin, 40 (3), pp.383-392.Publisher
SAGE Publications © The AuthorsVersion
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Acceptance date
2019-03-19Publication date
2019-06-13Notes
This paper was accepted for publication in the journal Food and Nutrition Bulletin and the definitive published version is available at https://doi.org/10.1177/0379572119842990. Users who receive access to an article through a repository are reminded that the article is protected by copyright. Users may download and save a local copy of an article accessed in an institutional repository for the user's personal reference.ISSN
0379-5721eISSN
1564-8265Publisher version
Language
- en