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

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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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Reproducció del document publicat a:
                http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15030449

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International Journal of Environmental Research and Public
                Health, 2018, vol. 15, num. 3, p. E449

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Articles publicats en revistes (ISGlobal)

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