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Title: Taking the Long View: The Prenatal Environment and Early Adolescent Overweight
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Salsberry, Pamela J. Reagan, Patricia Benton |
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Taking the Long View: The Prenatal Environment and Early Adolescent Overweight Research in Nursing and Health 30,3 (June 2007): 297–307. Also: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/114265451/ABSTRACT Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79 Publisher: Wiley Online Keyword(s): Body Mass Index (BMI); Breastfeeding; Child Development; Child Health; Cigarette Use (see Smoking); Ethnic Differences; Height; Height, Height-Weight Ratios; Obesity; Pre-natal Care/Exposure; Pre/post Natal Behavior; Pregnancy and Pregnancy Outcomes; Smoking (see Cigarette Use); Weight Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. The purpose of this study was to assess the independent effects of the prenatal environment and cumulated social risks on the likelihood of being overweight at age 12/13 years. Maternal prepregnancy weight and smoking during pregnancy were the measures of prenatal exposures. Average lifetime per capita income and mother's lifetime marital status were the measures of cumulative social risks. Analysis of data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth's Child–Mother file indicated that exposures to tobacco smoke in utero, maternal prepregnancy overweight/ obesity, and maternal unmarried status were significant risks for adolescent overweight. The risk for overweight was reduced by breastfeeding if the mother was overweight/obese prepregnancy. Prenatal and early life factors were related to adolescent overweight, providing an important window for intervention. 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. |
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Salsberry, Pamela J. and Patricia Benton Reagan. "Taking the Long View: The Prenatal Environment and Early Adolescent Overweight." Research in Nursing and Health 30,3 (June 2007): 297–307. A.
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