Salud Pública de México (Feb 2020)

Risk factors associated with overweight and obesity among female Mexican teenagers

  • María Concepción Medina-Zacarías,
  • Teresa Shamah-Levy,
  • Lucía Cuevas-Nasu,
  • Ignacio Méndez Gómez-Humarán,
  • Sonia Lizeth Hernández-Cordero

DOI
https://doi.org/10.21149/10388
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 62, no. 2, Mar-Abr
pp. 125 – 136

Abstract

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Objective. To analyze risk factors associated with over­weight and obesity (OW+O) among female Mexican teen­agers (12 to 19 years old). Materials and methods. Secondary analysis of 1 072 teenagers from the Halfway National Survey of Health and Nutrition (Ensanut MC, 2016). Ordinal logistic regression models were used to estimate the association between OW+O and screen time, living with adults with OW+O, marital union, and dietary patterns, among others. Results. OW+O in adolescents was higher when living with overweighed and obese adults (OR= 2.13), >2 hours of screen time (OR= 2.5), discretionary food con­sumption pattern (OR= 1.81), living in marital union (OR = 2.13), classified in the highest tertile of household wealth index (OR= 1.86), work and doing housework (OR= 5.4). Conclusions. The most important risk factors associated with OW+O in Mexican teenagers were related to family factors and lifestyles.

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