Paternal origins of obesity: Emerging evidence for incorporating epigenetic pathways into the social determinants of health framework

S Milliken-Smith, CM Potter - Social Science & Medicine, 2021 - Elsevier
Over the past 40 years a global discourse on population obesity has emerged, with moral
outrage surrounding the rise in childhood obesity during this time. Women are portrayed as …

Relationship between childhood obesity and socio-economic status among primary school children in Costa Rica

T Gamboa-Gamboa, R Fantin, J Cordoba… - Public Health …, 2021 - cambridge.org
Objective: This article analyses the relationship between socio-economic status and the
prevalence of overweight and obesity in the primary school population in Costa Rica …

Impact of parental lifestyle patterns in the preconception and pregnancy periods on childhood obesity

M Lecorguillé, MC Schipper, A O'donnell… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction High prevalence of overweight and obesity already observed in preschool
children suggests the involvement of early-life risk factors. Preconception period and …

Parental body mass index and its association with body composition, physical fitness and lifestyle factors in their 4-year-old children: results from the MINISTOP trial

C Cadenas-Sanchez, P Henriksson… - European Journal of …, 2017 - nature.com
Results: Parental BMI were positively associated with their offspring's BMI (paternal BMI:
standardised beta, β= 0.233, P< 0.001; maternal BMI: β= 0.186, P= 0.001), fat mass index …

An interaction path of mothers' and preschoolers' food-and physical activity-related aspects in disadvantaged sicilian urban areas

G Tabacchi, L Petrigna, G Battaglia, G Navarra… - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Background: The relationship between mothers and their children's lifestyle is still unclear,
especially in disadvantaged areas. Consequently, the study aims to identify a path …

[HTML][HTML] Inequality, validity of self-reported height, and its implications for BMI estimates: An analysis of randomly selected primary sampling units' data

A Gugushvili, E Jarosz - Preventive Medicine Reports, 2019 - Elsevier
Any systematic errors in self-reported height, a measure commonly used in health research,
may produce biased BMI estimates and reduce the effectiveness of public health …

The associations of maternal and paternal obesity with latent patterns of offspring BMI development between 7 and 17 years of age: pooled analyses of cohorts born in …

W Johnson, SMP Pereira, S Costa, JL Baker… - International Journal of …, 2023 - nature.com
Objective We aimed to 1) describe how the UK obesity epidemic reflects a change over time
in the proportion of the population demonstrating adverse latent patterns of BMI …

Age trajectories of cardiovascular risk factors in Chinese children and adolescents—secular trends, socioeconomic inequalities, and roles of growth and lifestyle …

M Gao - 2022 - discovery.ucl.ac.uk
Background: High blood pressure (HBP) is the leading modifiable risk factor for
cardiovascular disease (CVD) and accounted for 10.8 million global deaths by 2019. The …

[HTML][HTML] Life-course approach: from socioeconomic determinants to biological embodiment

M Kelly-Irving, P Vineis - 2021 - europepmc.org
People with a more disadvantaged socioeconomic position (SEP) have higher rates of
mortality at a given age; in other words, they die younger (Gallo et al., 2012). They are also …

To what extent are complex public health interventions transferable across contexts?

M Kelly Irving, E Gaborit, F Beraut… - European Journal of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Background: Governments across Europe have attempted to address the obesogenic
environment through a variety of policy measures. A growing literature advocates for …