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Title: | Impact of the Social and Natural Environment on Preschool-Age Children Weight |
Author: | Petraviciene, Inga Grazuleviciene, Regina Andrusaityte, Sandra Dedele, Audrius Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark J. |
Keywords: | Obesitat en els infants Estrès en els infants Obesity in children Stress in children |
Issue Date: | 5-Mar-2018 |
Publisher: | MDPI |
Abstract: | Background: The complex impact of environmental and social factors on preschool children being overweight/obese is unclear. We examined the associations between the levels of green space exposure and the risk of being overweight/obese for 4-6 year-old children and assessed the impact of maternal education on these associations. Methods: This cross-sectional study included 1489 mother-child pairs living in Kaunas, Lithuania, in 2012-2013. We assessed children overweight/obesity by standardized questionnaires using international body mass index cut-off points, and the level of greenness exposures by satellite-derived normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) of each child's home and by the distance to a nearest city park. The maternal education was used as the SES indicator. We used logistic regression models to investigate the strength of the associations. Results: Children from families with poorer maternal education, pathological mother-child relations and smoking mothers, and living in areas with less greenness exposure (NDVI-100 m), had significantly higher odds ratios of being overweight/obese. Lower maternal education and distance to a city park modified the effect of greenness cover level exposure on the risk of children being overweight/obese. Conclusions: Higher greenness exposure in the residential settings has beneficial effects on children's physical development. The green spaces exposures for psychosocial stress management is recommended as a measure to prevent overweight/obesity among children. |
Note: | Reproducció del document publicat a: http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15030449 |
It is part of: | International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2018, vol. 15, num. 3, p. E449 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/121076 |
Related resource: | http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15030449 |
ISSN: | 1660-4601 |
Appears in Collections: | Articles publicats en revistes (ISGlobal) Publicacions de projectes de recerca finançats per la UE |
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