Acta Pediatrica Espanola
Volume 75, Issue 3-4, 2017, Pages 36-42

Immigration and risk of overweight and obesity in school children [Inmigracion y riesgo de sobrepeso y obesidad en ninos en edad escolar] (Article) (Open Access)

Escartfn L. , Mayor E.A. , Samper M.R. , Labayen I. , Alvarez M.L. , Moreno L.A. , Rodriguez G.*
  • a Department de Pediatrfa, Radiologfa y Medicina Flsica, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Zaragoza, Domingo Miral, Zaragoza, 50009, Spain
  • b Department de Pediatrfa, Radiologfa y Medicina Flsica, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Zaragoza, Domingo Miral, Zaragoza, 50009, Spain
  • c Department de Pediatrfa, Radiologfa y Medicina Flsica, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Zaragoza, Domingo Miral, Zaragoza, 50009, Spain
  • d Department of Nutrition and Food Science, Universidad Del Pais Vasco, UPV/EHU, Vitoria, Spain
  • e GENUD (Growth, Exercise, Nutrition and Development) Research Group, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain
  • f Department de Pediatrfa, Radiologfa y Medicina Flsica, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Zaragoza, Domingo Miral, Zaragoza, 50009, Spain, GENUD (Growth, Exercise, Nutrition and Development) Research Group, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain
  • g Department de Pediatrfa, Radiologfa y Medicina Flsica, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Zaragoza, Domingo Miral, Zaragoza, 50009, Spain, GENUD (Growth, Exercise, Nutrition and Development) Research Group, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain

Abstract

Title: Immigration and risk of overweight and obesity in school children Introduction: In the recent decades, children overweight have been tripled in our living conditions. Sociocultural factors as parents' background may become a risk agent. Purpose: To estimate the influence of mother's background on overweight risk at the age of 6. Procedure: Longitudinal study of Aragonese children population-representative cohort from birth to 6 years old (n= 1,560). Sociocultural and family anthropometric features, type of feed and postnatal growth according to mother's background were evaluated. High overweight incidence at the age of 6 and the mother's immigrant background was analyzed after being adjusted by different covariants. Results: 23.4[%] of the cross section were children of immigrant background mothers. The sociocultural and family anthropometric features, the type of feed and the postnatal growth differed in the immigrant background group (underage mothers, lower smoking habits during pregnancy, greater weight gain during pregnancy, a lower educational level of parents, greater habitat incidence in urban areas and a lower percentage of low birthweight children). The overall incidence of 6 years old overweight was 30.3[%] (15[%] overweight and 15.3[%] obesity): from a 39.4[%] (18.1[%] overweight and 21.3[%] obesity) in the immigrant background group, and from 28.4[%] (14.4[%] overweight and 14[%] obesity) in the Spanish group (p= 0.001; relative risk= 1.63; confidence interval of 95[%]: 1.21-2.22). Immigrant mother's background remained as an overweight separate risk factor after adjusting the analysis by the remaining covariants. Conclusions: The overweight incidence in immigrant mothers' children is higher than those of Spanish mothers' at the age of 6. This fact may become a separate risk factor for obesity development since childhood. © 2017 Ediciones Mayo, S.A. All rights reserved.

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urban area gestational weight gain educational status longitudinal study human immigration social aspect feeding cross-sectional study postnatal growth school child family female Infant newborn cultural factor Incidence Article low birth weight major clinical study mother anthropometry childhood obesity smoking habit Child
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DOI: 10.1017/S1368980008003571
ISSN: 00016640
Cited by: 1
Original Language: English; Spanish