Body weight in childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood in relation to later risk of disabilities and early retirement among Danish female nurses

Background Obesity is now the most common health problem in the younger population in Western societies and obesity rates are higher in lower socioeconomic status (SES) groups. We investigated whether overweight in childhood, independently of overweight in adulthood, influenced adult employment stat...

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Published in:International Journal of Obesity 2024-06, Vol.48 (6), p.859-866
Main Authors: Reiband, Hanna Kruse, Klemmensen, Rikke Tannenberg, Rosthøj, Susanne, Sørensen, Thorkild I. A., Heitmann, Berit Lilienthal
Format: Article
Language:English
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Adolescence
Adolescent
Adolescents
Adult
Body Mass Index
Body weight
Body Weight - physiology
Child
Child development
Childhood
Children
Cohort Studies
Denmark - epidemiology
Disabilities
Disabled Persons - statistics & numerical data
Early retirement
Employment - statistics & numerical data
Epidemiology
Female
Females
Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
Humans
Internal Medicine
Medical personnel
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Metabolic Diseases
Middle Aged
Nurses
Nurses - statistics & numerical data
Obesity
Overweight
Overweight - epidemiology
Pediatric Obesity - epidemiology
Post-menopause
Public Health
Retirement
Retirement - statistics & numerical data
Risk
Risk Factors
Socioeconomic Factors
Socioeconomics
Young Adult
Young adults
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Summary:Background Obesity is now the most common health problem in the younger population in Western societies and obesity rates are higher in lower socioeconomic status (SES) groups. We investigated whether overweight in childhood, independently of overweight in adulthood, influenced adult employment status and later risk of having disabilities. Using data from the Danish Female Nurse Cohort study, we examined associations between overweight in childhood/adolescence, and young adulthood and disabilities and early retirement in later adulthood (>44 years) and whether it was influenced by menopausal age (
ISSN:0307-0565
1476-5497
DOI:10.1038/s41366-024-01487-6