Journal article
Cross-sectional and prospective mediating effects of dietary intake on the relationship between sedentary behaviour and body mass index in adolescents
EA Fletcher, KE Lamb, SA McNaughton, SP Garnett, DW Dunstan, LA Baur, J Salmon
BMC Public Health | BMC | Published : 2017
Abstract
Background: Cross-sectional evidence suggests TV viewing, but not objectively-measured sedentary time or bouts of sedentary time, is consistently associated with body mass index (BMI) in adolescents. However, it is unclear whether dietary intake is a potential mediator of these relationships. The aim of this study was to explore the cross-sectional and prospective mediating effects of dietary intake on the association of sedentary behaviour with BMI z-score (zBMI) in a cohort of Australian adolescents. Methods: Cross-sectional and prospective analyses were conducted in adolescents aged 12-15 years participating in the 2002/03 (baseline) and 2004/05 (follow-up) Nepean Growing Up Study. The in..
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Funding Acknowledgements
The Nepean longitudinal study was funded by The Children's Hospital at Westmead Grant Research Scheme, a National Health and Medical Research Council Project Grant #206501 and Meat and Livestock Australia. SAM is funded by an NHMRC Career Development Fellowship Level 2, ID1104636 and was previously funded by an ARC Future Fellowship (2011-2015, FT100100581). DWD is funded by NHMRC Senior Research Fellowship (APP1078360). JS is funded by a NHMRC Principal Research Fellowship (APP1026216). This work was also partially funded by an OIS grant from the Victorian State Government and a National Health & Medical Research Council, Centre of Research Excellence grant (APP1057608).