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Impact of the Social and Natural Environment on Preschool-Age Children Weight

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http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15030449

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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.

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Obesitat en els infants, Estrès en els infants

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Obesity in children, Stress in children

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PETRAVICIENE, Inga, GRAZULEVICIENE, Regina, ANDRUSAITYTE, Sandra, DEDELE, Audrius, NIEUWENHUIJSEN, Mark j.. Impact of the Social and Natural Environment on Preschool-Age
                Children Weight. _International Journal of Environmental Research and Public
                Health_. 2018. Vol. 15, núm. 3, pàgs. E449. [consulta: 25 de febrer de 2026]. ISSN: 1660-4601. [Disponible a: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/121076]

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