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Title: Developmental Trajectories of Childhood Obesity and Risk Behaviors in Adolescence
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Huang, David Y.C. Lanza, H. Isabella Wright-Volel, Kynna Anglin, M. Douglas |
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Developmental Trajectories of Childhood Obesity and Risk Behaviors in Adolescence Journal of Adolescence 36,1 (February 2013): 139-148. Also: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23199644 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult Publisher: Elsevier Keyword(s): Alcohol Use; Body Mass Index (BMI); CESD (Depression Scale); Child Health; Cigarette Use (see Smoking); Dating; Delinquency/Gang Activity; Depression (see also CESD); Drug Use; Obesity; Pearlin Mastery Scale; Peers/Peer influence/Peer relations; Risk-Taking; Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES) (see Self-Esteem); Sexual Behavior; Smoking (see Cigarette Use); Substance Use Using group-based trajectory modeling, this study examined 5156 adolescents from the child sample of the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to identify developmental trajectories of obesity from ages 6-18 and evaluate associations of such trajectories with risk behaviors and psychosocial health in adolescence. Four distinctive obesity trajectories were identified: "Chronically Obese," "Decreasing," "Increasing," and "Non-obese." Males were overrepresented in the Chronically Obese and Increasing groups; females were overrepresented in the Decreasing group. African-Americans were overrepresented in the Chronically Obese, Increasing, and Decreasing groups; in contrast, Whites were overrepresented in the Non-obese group. Obesity trajectories were not associated with greater trends in alcohol use, marijuana use, or delinquency, but Chronically Obese adolescents showed a greater increase in cigarette smoking over time compared to other trajectories. The Increasing trajectory, representing a transition into obesity status from childhood to adolescence, was associated with poorer psychosocial health compared to other trajectories. |
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Huang, David Y.C., H. Isabella Lanza, Kynna Wright-Volel and M. Douglas Anglin. "Developmental Trajectories of Childhood Obesity and Risk Behaviors in Adolescence." Journal of Adolescence 36,1 (February 2013): 139-148.
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