Journal article
Family and Neighbourhood Socioeconomic Inequalities in Childhood Trajectories of BMI and Overweight: Longitudinal Study of Australian Children
PW Jansen, FK Mensah, JM Nicholson, M Wake
Plos One | Published : 2013
Abstract
Background:Socioeconomic inequalities in longitudinal patterning of childhood overweight could cause marked differentials in total burden by adulthood. This study aims to determine timing and strength of the association between socioeconomic status (SES) and children's body mass index (BMI) in the pre- and primary school years, and to examine socioeconomic differences in overweight trajectories across childhood.Methods:Participants were 4949 children from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children. BMI was measured at four biennial waves starting at age 4-5 years in 2004. Developmental trajectories of childhood overweight were identified with latent class analyses. Composite variables of ..
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Awarded by Marie Cofund Action (Rubicon grant)
Awarded by NHMRC Population Health Career Development Awards
Awarded by NHMRC Public Health Capacity Building Grant
Awarded by NHMRC Early Career Fellowship
Funding Acknowledgements
This work was supported by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research(NWO) and the Marie Cofund Action (Rubicon grant 446-11-010), and by the Ter Meulen Fund of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), both awarded to PWJ. MW was supported by NHMRC Population Health Career Development Awards (grants 284556, 546405), and FKM by an NHMRC Public Health Capacity Building Grant (grant 436914) and an NHMRC Early Career Fellowship (grant 1037449). All research at the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute is supported by the Victorian Government's Operational Infrastructure Program. This work received support from the "Parenting Australia's Children" research group at the Parenting Research Centre. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.