Early anthropometric measures and reproductive factors as predictors of body mass index and obesity among older women

OBJECTIVE: To examine whether early anthropometric measures and reproductive factors were associated with body mass index (BMI), overweight, and obesity. DESIGN: Cross-sectional, observational study. SUBJECTS: In all, 18 109 healthy women who participated in the Swedish Mammography Cohort aged 49–83...

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Published in:INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OBESITY 2005-09, Vol.29 (9), p.1084-1092
Main Authors: Newby, P K, Dickman, P W, Adami, H-O, Wolk, A
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adults
Age
Age Factors
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Biological and medical sciences
Birth Weight
birthweight
BMI
Body Mass Index
Body Size - physiology
Body weight
Child development
childhood
Cohort Studies
Cross-Sectional Studies
Epidemiology
Exercise
Feeding. Feeding behavior
Female
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
Humans
Internal Medicine
Maternal Age
Medical sciences
Medicin och hälsovetenskap
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Menarche - physiology
Metabolic Diseases
Middle Aged
Nutrition research
Obesity
Obesity - physiopathology
Observational studies
Older people
Overweight
Overweight - physiology
Parity
physical activity
Physical Exertion - physiology
Pregnancy
Prognosis
Public Health
Questionnaires
Regression analysis
reproductive
Risk Factors
Smoking
Vertebrates: anatomy and physiology, studies on body, several organs or systems
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Summary:OBJECTIVE: To examine whether early anthropometric measures and reproductive factors were associated with body mass index (BMI), overweight, and obesity. DESIGN: Cross-sectional, observational study. SUBJECTS: In all, 18 109 healthy women who participated in the Swedish Mammography Cohort aged 49–83 y. MEASUREMENTS: Early anthropometric (birthweight and body shape at age 10 y) and reproductive (age at menarche, age at the birth of the first child, and parity) variables were our predictors and current BMI, overweight (BMI 25–29.99 kg/m 2 ), and obesity (BMI ≥30 kg/m 2 ) were our outcomes. RESULTS: In multivariate-adjusted polytomous logistic regression analysis, risk of overweight and obesity increased with increasing body shape at age 10 y and decreased with increasing age at menarche and age at first birth ( P for trend
ISSN:0307-0565
1476-5497
1476-5497
DOI:10.1038/sj.ijo.0802996