31
Views
20
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Original Articles

Social-environmental factors associated with elevated body mass index in a Ukrainian cohort of children

, , , , , , & show all
Pages 81-90 | Received 20 Feb 2008, Published online: 12 Jul 2009

References

  • Celi F, Bini V, De Giorgi G, Molinari D, Faraoni F, Di Stefano G, et al. Epidemiology of overweight and obesity among school children and adolescents in three provinces of central Italy, 1993–2001: study of potential influencing variables. Eur J Clin Nutr 2003; 57(9)1045–51
  • Silventoinen K, Sans S, Tolonen H, Monterde D, Kuulasmaa K, Kesteloot H, et al. Trends in obesity and energy supply in the WHO MONICA Project. Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord. 2004; 28(5)710–8
  • Heude B, Lafay L, Borys JM, Thibult N, Lommez A, Romon M, et al. Time trend in height, weight, and obesity prevalence in school children from Northern France, 1992-2000. Diabetes Metab 2003; 29(3)235–40
  • Lobstein TJ, James WP, Cole TJ. Increasing levels of excess weight among children in England. Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord. 2003; 27(9)1136–8
  • World Health Organization. 2000. “Health for All Statistical Database”, WHO Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen, Denmark. http://www3.who.int/whosis.menu.cfm. Accessed during July 2003.
  • Locard E, Mamelle N, Billette A, Miginiac M, Munoz F, Rey S. Risk factors of obesity in a five year old population. Parental versus environmental factors. Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord. 1992; 16(10)721–9
  • Takahashi E, Yoshida K, Sugimori H, Miyakawa M, Izuno T, Yamagami T, et al. Influence factors on the development of obesity in 3-year-old children based on the Toyama study. Prev Med. 1999; 28(3)293–6
  • Fogelholm M, Nuutinen O, Pasanen M, Myohanen E, Saatela T. Parent-child relationship of physical activity patterns and obesity. Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord. 1999; 23(12)1262–8
  • Klesges RC, Eck LH, Hanson CL, Haddock CK, Klesges LM. Effects of obesity, social interactions, and physical environment on physical activity in preschoolers. Health Psychol. 1990; 9(4)435–49
  • Patterson RE, Typpo JT, Typpo MH, Krause GF. Factors related to obesity in preschool children. J Am Diet Assoc. 1986; 86(10)1376–81
  • Keiller SM, Colley JR, Carpenter RG. Obesity in schoolchildren and their parents. Ann Hum Biol. 1979; 6(5)443–55
  • Zadik Z, Borondukov E, Zung A, Reifen R. Adult height and weight of breast-fed and bottle-fed Israeli infants. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr. 2003; 37(4)462–7
  • Ramos de Marins VM, Almeida RM, Pereira RA, de Azevedo Barros MB. The relationship between parental nutritional status and overweight children/adolescents in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Public Health. 2004; 118(1)43–9
  • Parsons TJ, Power C, Manor O. Fetal and early life growth and body mass index from birth to early adulthood in 1958 British cohort: longitudinal study. BMJ 2001; 323(7325)1331–5
  • Hawkins SS, Law C. A review of risk factors for overweight in preschool children: a policy perspective. Int J Pediatr Obes. 2006; 1(4)195–209
  • Wang YC, Monteiro M, Popkin BM. Trends of obesity and underweight in older children and adolescents in the United States, Brazil, China, and Russia. Am J Clin Nutr. 2002; 75: 971–7
  • Budd GM, Hayman LL. Childhood obesity: determinants, prevention, and treatment. J Cardiovasc Nurs. 2006; 21(6)437–41
  • Christoffel KK, Forsyth BW. Mirror image of environmental deprivation: severe childhood obesity of psychosocial origin. Child Abuse Negl. 1989; 13(2)249–56
  • Anderson PM, Butcher KF, Levine PB. Maternal employment and overweight children. J Health Econ. 2003; 22(3)477–504
  • Gerald LB, Anderson A, Johnson GD, Hoff C, Trimm RF. Social class, social support and obesity risk in children. Child Care Health Dev. 1994; 20(3)145–63
  • Sugimori H, Yoshida K, Izuno T, Miyakawa M, Suka M, Sekine M, et al. Analysis of factors that influence body mass index from ages 3 to 6 years: A study based on the Toyama cohort study. Pediatr Int. 2004; 46(3)302–10
  • Halford JC, Gillespie J, Brown V, Pontin EE, Dovey TM. Effect of television advertisements for foods on food consumption in children. Appetite. 2004; 42(2)221–5
  • da Costa Ribeiro I, Augusto AC, Taddei J, Colugnatti F. Obesity among children attending elementary public schools in Sao Paulo, Brazil: a case–control study. Public Health Nutr. 2003; 6(7)659–63
  • Gray A, Smith C. Fitness, dietary intake, and body mass index in urban Native American youth. J Am Diet Assoc. 2003; 103(9)1187–91
  • Wake M, Hesketh K, Waters E. Television, computer use and body mass index in Australian primary school children. J Paediatr Child Health. 2003; 39(2)130–4
  • Horn OK, Paradis G, Potvin L, Macaulay AC, Desrosiers S. Correlates and predictors of adiposity among Mohawk children. Prev Med. 2001; 33(4)274–81
  • Kimm SY, Obarzanek E, Barton BA, Aston CE, Similo SL, Morrison JA, et al. Race, socioeconomic status, and obesity in 9- to 10-year-old girls: the NHLBI Growth and Health Study. Ann Epidemiol. 1996; 6(4)266–75
  • Dietz WH, Gortmaker SL. Preventing obesity in children and adolescents. Annu Rev Public Health. 2001; 22: 337–53
  • Agras WS, Mascola AJ. Risk factors for childhood overweight. Curr Opin Pediatr. 2005; 17(5)648–52
  • Kramer MS. Do breast-feeding and delayed introduction of solid foods protect against subsequent obesity?. J Pediatr. 1981; 98(6)883–7
  • Bergmann KE, Bergmann RL, Von Kries R, Bohm O, Richter R, Dudenhausen JW, et al. Early determinants of childhood overweight and adiposity in a birth cohort study: role of breast-feeding. Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord. 2003; 27(2)162–72
  • von Kries R, Toschke AM, Koletzko B, Slikker W, Jr. Maternal smoking during pregnancy and childhood obesity. Am J Epidemiol. 2002; 156(10)954–61
  • Toschke AM, Montgomery SM, Pfeiffer U, von Kries R. Early intrauterine exposure to tobacco-inhaled products and obesity. Am J Epidemiol. 2003; 158(11)1068–74
  • Wideroe M, Vik T, Jacobsen G, Bakketeig LS. Does maternal smoking during pregnancy cause childhood overweight?. Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol. 2003; 17(2)171–9
  • Toschke AM, Koletzko B, Slikker W, Jr, Hermann M, von Kries R. Childhood obesity is associated with maternal smoking in pregnancy. Eur J Pediatr. 2002; 161(8)445–8
  • Shrewsbury V, Wardle J. Socioeconomic status and adiposity in childhood: a systematic review of cross-sectional studies 1990–2005. Obesity. 2008; 16(2)275–84
  • Mei Z, Grummer-Strawn LM, Thompson D, Dietz WH. Shifts in percentiles of growth during early childhood: analysis of longitudinal data from the California Child Health and Development Study. Pediatrics. 2004; 113(6)617–27
  • Monaghan SC, Little RE, Hulchiy O, Strassner H, Gladen BC. Preterm birth in two urban areas of Ukraine. Obstet Gynecol. 2000; 95: 752–5
  • Allison PD. Missing Data. Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, CA 2002
  • Rummel RJ. Applied Factor Analysis. Northwestern University Press, Evanston 1970
  • Velicer WF, Jackson DN. Component analysis versus common factor analysis: Some issues in selecting an appropriate procedure. Multivariate Behavioral Research. 1990; 25(1)1–28
  • Chen W, Srinivasan SR, Elkasabany A, Berenson GS. Cardiovascular Risk Factors Clustering Features of Insulin Resistance Syndrome (Syndrome X) In a Biracial (Black-White) Population of Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults: The Bogalusa Heart Study. Am J Epidemiol. 1999; 150: 667–74
  • Retnakaran R, Zinman B, Connelly PW, Harris SB, Hanley A. Non-traditional cardiovascular risk factors in pediatric metabolic syndrome. J Pediatr. 2006; 148: 176–82
  • Hoppa RD, Garlie TN. Secular changes in the growth of Toronto children during the last century. Ann Hum Biol. 1998; 25(6)553–61
  • Jantz LM, Jantz RL. Secular change in long bone length and proportion in the United States, 1800–1970. Am J Phys Anthropol. 1999; 110(1)57–67
  • Hakeem R. Socio-economic differences in height and body mass index of children and adults living in urban areas of Karachi, Pakistan. Eur J Clin Nutr. 2001; 55(5)400–6
  • Hawamdeh H, Spencer N. Effect of work related variables on growth among working boys in Jordan. J Epidemiol Community Health. 2003; 57(2)154–8
  • Posada ME, Ruben M, Esquivel M. On growth of children: effect of some socioeconomic and genetic factors. Acta Paediatr Hung. 1987; 28(1)37–43
  • Loesch DZ, Stokes K, Huggins RM. Secular trend in body height and weight of Australian children and adolescents. Am J Phys Anthropol. 2000; 111(4)545–56
  • Burdette HL, Whitaker RC. Neighborhood playgrounds, fast food restaurants, and crime: relationships to overweight in low-income preschool children. Prev Med. 2004; 38(1)57–63
  • Salbe AD, Weyer C, Lindsay RS, Ravussin E, Tataranni PA. Assessing risk factors for obesity between childhood and adolescence: I. Birth weight, childhood adiposity, parental obesity, insulin, and leptin. Pediatrics. 2002; 110((2 Pt1))299–306
  • Sorensen TI, Stunkard AJ. Does obesity run in families because of genes? An adoption study using silhouettes as a measure of obesity. Acta Psychiatr Scand Suppl. 1993; 370: 67–72
  • Fuentes RM, Notkola IL, Shemeikka S, Tuomilehto J, Nissinen A. Familial aggregation of body mass index: a population-based family study in eastern Finland. Horm Metab Res. 2002; 34(7)406–10
  • DiMaria-Ghalili RA. Medical Record Versus Researcher Measures of Height and Weight. Biol Res Nurs. 2006; 8(1)15–23
  • Cole TJ, Bellizzi MC, Flegal KM, Dietz WH. Establishing a standard definition for child overweight and obesity worldwide: international survey. BMJ. 2000; 320: 1240–3

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.