Excess weight in adolescents and associated factors: data from the ERICA study
Objective: To estimate the prevalence of excessive weight and to identify associations with socioeconomic, demographic, biological, and lifestyle factors in adolescents. Methods: It is a cross-sectional school-based study, with a stratified and complex sample. The evaluated individuals were adolesce...
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| author | Niedja Maria da Silva Lima Vanessa Sá Leal Juliana Souza Oliveira Maria Izabel Siqueira de Andrade Natália Fernandes dos Santos Jussara Tavares Pessoa Nathalia Barbosa de Aquino Pedro Israel Cabral de Lira |
| author_facet | Niedja Maria da Silva Lima Vanessa Sá Leal Juliana Souza Oliveira Maria Izabel Siqueira de Andrade Natália Fernandes dos Santos Jussara Tavares Pessoa Nathalia Barbosa de Aquino Pedro Israel Cabral de Lira |
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| description | Objective: To estimate the prevalence of excessive weight and to identify associations with socioeconomic, demographic, biological, and lifestyle factors in adolescents. Methods: It is a cross-sectional school-based study, with a stratified and complex sample. The evaluated individuals were adolescents (2404), aged 12–17 years old, participating in the Study of Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Adolescents (ERICA). Demographic, socioeconomic, biological, anthropometric, and lifestyle variables were assessed. Poisson regression was used to verify the association between excess weight and independent variables. Results: The prevalence of excessive weight was 26.3% in the study population, being 16.3% for overweight and 10% for obesity. In the multivariate analysis (hierarchical model), were associated with excessive weight: private education network, a higher number of televisions in the residence, eating habits related to the breakfast consumption, snacks purchase in the canteen, snacks in front to screens consumption and consumption of carbohydrates and lipids, in addition to age group (12–14 years) and sexual maturation (post-pubertal). Conclusions: The prevalence of excessive weight among the school adolescents studied is high, with a value higher than the national average and the results of previous studies with adolescents. Its distribution is associated with different factors, which are socioeconomic, demographic, biological, and related to lifestyle, reinforcing the complexity of this condition, which deserves a broad coping approach, involving not only individual efforts but social and public ones as well. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-8ddc112ac46143979d937e27f9d8e40d2022-12-22T04:25:03ZengElsevierJornal de Pediatria0021-75572021-11-01976676684Excess weight in adolescents and associated factors: data from the ERICA studyNiedja Maria da Silva Lima0Vanessa Sá Leal1Juliana Souza Oliveira2Maria Izabel Siqueira de Andrade3Natália Fernandes dos Santos4Jussara Tavares Pessoa5Nathalia Barbosa de Aquino6Pedro Israel Cabral de Lira7Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Centro de Ciências da Saúde, Departamento de Nutrição, Recife, PE, Brazil; Corresponding author.Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Centro Acadêmico de Vitória, Núcleo de Nutrição, Vitória de Santo Antão, PE, BrazilUniversidade Federal de Pernambuco, Centro Acadêmico de Vitória, Núcleo de Nutrição, Vitória de Santo Antão, PE, BrazilUniversidade Federal de Alagoas, Campus A. C. Simões, Faculdade de Nutrição, Maceió, AL, BrazilUniversidade Federal de Pernambuco, Centro de Ciências da Saúde, Departamento de Nutrição, Recife, PE, BrazilUniversidade Federal de Pernambuco, Centro de Ciências da Saúde, Departamento de Nutrição, Recife, PE, BrazilUniversidade Federal de Pernambuco, Centro de Ciências da Saúde, Departamento de Medicina Social, Recife, PE, BrazilUniversidade Federal de Pernambuco, Centro de Ciências da Saúde, Departamento de Nutrição, Recife, PE, BrazilObjective: To estimate the prevalence of excessive weight and to identify associations with socioeconomic, demographic, biological, and lifestyle factors in adolescents. Methods: It is a cross-sectional school-based study, with a stratified and complex sample. The evaluated individuals were adolescents (2404), aged 12–17 years old, participating in the Study of Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Adolescents (ERICA). Demographic, socioeconomic, biological, anthropometric, and lifestyle variables were assessed. Poisson regression was used to verify the association between excess weight and independent variables. Results: The prevalence of excessive weight was 26.3% in the study population, being 16.3% for overweight and 10% for obesity. In the multivariate analysis (hierarchical model), were associated with excessive weight: private education network, a higher number of televisions in the residence, eating habits related to the breakfast consumption, snacks purchase in the canteen, snacks in front to screens consumption and consumption of carbohydrates and lipids, in addition to age group (12–14 years) and sexual maturation (post-pubertal). Conclusions: The prevalence of excessive weight among the school adolescents studied is high, with a value higher than the national average and the results of previous studies with adolescents. Its distribution is associated with different factors, which are socioeconomic, demographic, biological, and related to lifestyle, reinforcing the complexity of this condition, which deserves a broad coping approach, involving not only individual efforts but social and public ones as well.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0021755721000553AdolescentObesityOverweightRisk factors |
| spellingShingle | Niedja Maria da Silva Lima Vanessa Sá Leal Juliana Souza Oliveira Maria Izabel Siqueira de Andrade Natália Fernandes dos Santos Jussara Tavares Pessoa Nathalia Barbosa de Aquino Pedro Israel Cabral de Lira Excess weight in adolescents and associated factors: data from the ERICA study Jornal de Pediatria Adolescent Obesity Overweight Risk factors |
| title | Excess weight in adolescents and associated factors: data from the ERICA study |
| title_full | Excess weight in adolescents and associated factors: data from the ERICA study |
| title_fullStr | Excess weight in adolescents and associated factors: data from the ERICA study |
| title_full_unstemmed | Excess weight in adolescents and associated factors: data from the ERICA study |
| title_short | Excess weight in adolescents and associated factors: data from the ERICA study |
| title_sort | excess weight in adolescents and associated factors data from the erica study |
| topic | Adolescent Obesity Overweight Risk factors |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0021755721000553 |
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