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Household income and maternal education in early childhood and risk of overweight and obesity in late childhood: Findings from seven birth cohort studies in six high-income countries
PA White, YA Awad, L Gauvin, NJ Spencer, JJ McGrath, SA Clifford, B Nikiema, J Yang-Huang, JD Goldhaber-Fiebert, W Markham, FK Mensah, A van Grieken, H Raat, VWV Jaddoe, J Ludvigsson, T Faresjö, JJ McGrath, L Séguin, K Pickett, G Bai Show all
International Journal of Obesity | SPRINGERNATURE | Published : 2022
Abstract
Background/objectives: This study analysed the relationship between early childhood socioeconomic status (SES) measured by maternal education and household income and the subsequent development of childhood overweight and obesity. Subjects/methods: Data from seven population-representative prospective child cohorts in six high-income countries: United Kingdom, Australia, the Netherlands, Canada (one national cohort and one from the province of Quebec), USA, Sweden. Children were included at birth or within the first 2 years of life. Pooled estimates relate to a total of N = 26,565 included children. Overweight and obesity were defined using International Obesity Task Force (IOTF) cut-offs an..
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Funding Acknowledgements
EPOCH was partly supported by Canadian Institutes of Health Research (J. McGrath OCO-79897, MOP-89886, MSH-95353; L. Se ' guin ROG-110537). For information on funding of individual cohort please see supplementary information. Additional collaborators of the EPOCH (Elucidating Pathways of Child Health inequalities) Collaborative Group include: (alphabetically) Clare Blackburn (University of Warwick, UK), Sven Bremberg (Karolinska Institutet, Sweden), Anders Hjern (Center for Health Equity Studies & Karolinska Institutet, Sweden), Jody Heymann (UCLA, USA), Lisa Kakinami (Concordia University, Canada), Lynn Kemp (Western Sydney University, Australia), Lucie Laflamme (Karolinska Institutet, Sweden), Johan Mackenbach (Erasmus MC, The Netherlands), Richard Masse (Ministere de la sante et des services sociaux, Gouvernement du Quebec, Canada), Marie-France Raynault (Center Hospitalier de l'Universite de Montreal-CHUM, Quebec), Paul Wise (Stanford University, USA). Open access funding provided by Linkoping University.