dc.contributor.author | Gebremariam, Mekdes Kebede | |
dc.contributor.author | Arah, Onyebuchi A. | |
dc.contributor.author | Bergh, Ingunn Holden | |
dc.contributor.author | Andersen, Lene Frost | |
dc.contributor.author | Ommundsen, Yngvar | |
dc.contributor.author | Totland, Torunn Holm | |
dc.contributor.author | Bjelland, Mona | |
dc.contributor.author | Grydeland, May | |
dc.contributor.author | Lien, Nanna | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-06-26T13:25:49Z | |
dc.date.available | 2019-06-26T13:25:49Z | |
dc.date.created | 2019-06-03T09:11:57Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Scientific Reports. 2019, 9 . | |
dc.identifier.issn | 2045-2322 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2602379 | |
dc.description.abstract | Identifying the mechanisms behind socioeconomic inequalities in adiposity among youth is vital for efforts aimed at combating these inequalities. The study explored whether a broad range of behavioral and familial factors mediated the associations between parental education and indicators of adiposity among adolescents. Baseline data from a school-based intervention study conducted in 2007 among 11-year-old adolescents were used. Anthropometric outcomes, physical activity and sedentary time among adolescents were objectively measured. Other behavioral variables and parental waist circumference were self-reported. Mediation analyses were conducted. Among boys, maternal waist circumference (WC), paternal WC and TV viewing mediated 16%, 11.5% and 13% of the association between parental education and adolescent WC. The respective proportions when body fat percentage was used as the outcome variable were 22.5%, 16% and 21%. Among girls, maternal and paternal WC mediated 20% and 14% of the association between parental education and WC. The respective proportions when body fat percentage was used as the outcome variable were 14% and 10%. Other included variables did not play any mediating role. Parental WC was found to be a mediator of socioeconomic differences in adiposity in both genders; underlying mechanisms were however not investigated. Among boys, reducing TV time could contribute to the reduction of social inequalities in adiposity. | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.title | Gender-specific mediators of the association between parental education and adiposity among adolescents: the HEIA study | |
dc.type | Peer reviewed | |
dc.type | Journal article | |
dc.description.version | publishedVersion | |
dc.source.pagenumber | 9 | |
dc.source.volume | 9 | |
dc.source.journal | Scientific Reports | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1038/s41598-019-43604-w | |
dc.identifier.cristin | 1702173 | |
cristin.unitcode | 7502,3,6,0 | |
cristin.unitname | Avdeling for helse og ulikhet | |
cristin.ispublished | true | |
cristin.fulltext | original | |
cristin.qualitycode | 1 | |