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Parental influence on the development of obesity in 9-year-old Japanese children: the Toyama birth cohort study

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Abstract

Objectives

To examine parental influence on the development of obesity in 9-year-old Japanese children.

Methods

A 6-year follow-up study of obesity among 6,102 children born in Toyama prefecture.

Results

After adjusting for obesity at age 3, either paternal obesity or maternal obesity at the age 3 survey more than double the risk of obesity at age 9 in both genders. Increases in parental body mass indexes (BMIs) from the age 3 survey through the age 9 survey were significantly associated with obesity at age 9 in girls.

Conclusions

Not only parental obesity but also increases in parental BMIs were likely to be associated with development of obesity in children.

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  1. Department of Preventive Medicine, St. Marianna University School of Medicine, 2-16-1 Sugao, Miyamae-ku, 216-8511, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan

    Machi Suka, Hiroki Sugimori & Katsumi Yoshida

  2. Department of Welfare Promotion and Epidemiology, Toyama Medical and Pharmaceutical University Faculty of Medicine, Toyama

    Michikazu Sekine, Takashi Yamagami & Sadanobu Kagamimori

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Suka, M., Sugimori, H., Yoshida, K. et al. Parental influence on the development of obesity in 9-year-old Japanese children: the Toyama birth cohort study. Environ Health Prev Med 7, 173–175 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02897947

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