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dc.contributor.authorGebremariam, Mekdes Kebede
dc.contributor.authorArah, Onyebuchi A.
dc.contributor.authorBergh, Ingunn Holden
dc.contributor.authorAndersen, Lene Frost
dc.contributor.authorOmmundsen, Yngvar
dc.contributor.authorTotland, Torunn Holm
dc.contributor.authorBjelland, Mona
dc.contributor.authorGrydeland, May
dc.contributor.authorLien, Nanna
dc.date.accessioned2019-06-26T13:25:49Z
dc.date.available2019-06-26T13:25:49Z
dc.date.created2019-06-03T09:11:57Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.identifier.citationScientific Reports. 2019, 9 .
dc.identifier.issn2045-2322
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11250/2602379
dc.description.abstractIdentifying 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.isoeng
dc.titleGender-specific mediators of the association between parental education and adiposity among adolescents: the HEIA study
dc.typePeer reviewed
dc.typeJournal article
dc.description.versionpublishedVersion
dc.source.pagenumber9
dc.source.volume9
dc.source.journalScientific Reports
dc.identifier.doi10.1038/s41598-019-43604-w
dc.identifier.cristin1702173
cristin.unitcode7502,3,6,0
cristin.unitnameAvdeling for helse og ulikhet
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