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Obesity in British children with and without intellectual disability: cohort study

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Public Health, July 2016
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Title
Obesity in British children with and without intellectual disability: cohort study
Published in
BMC Public Health, July 2016
DOI 10.1186/s12889-016-3309-1
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Eric Emerson, Janet Robertson, Susannah Baines, Chris Hatton

Abstract

Reducing the prevalence of and inequities in the distribution of child obesity will require developing interventions that are sensitive to the situation of 'high risk' groups of children. Children with intellectual disability appear to be one such group. We aimed to estimate the prevalence of obesity in children with and without intellectual disability in a longitudinal representative sample of British children and identify risk factors associated with obesity at age 11. Information was collected on a nationally representative sample of over 18,000 at ages 9 months, 3, 5, 7 and 11 years. We used UK 1990 gender-specific growth reference charts and the LMS Growth programme to identify age and gender-specific overweight and obesity BMI thresholds for each child at ages 5, 7 and 11 years. Children with intellectual disabilities were significantly more likely than other children to be obese at ages five (OR = 1.32[1.03-1.68]), seven (OR = 1.39[1.05-1.83]) and eleven (OR = 1.68[1.39-2.03]). At ages five and seven increased risk of obesity among children with intellectual disabilities was only apparent among boys. Among children with intellectual disability risk of obesity at age eleven was associated with persistent maternal obesity, maternal education, child ethnicity and being bullied at age five. Children with intellectual disability are a high-risk group for the development of obesity, accounting for 5-6 % of all obese children. Interventions to reduce the prevalence and inequities in the distribution of child obesity will need to take account of the specific situation of this group of children.

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Unknown 153 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 21 14%
Student > Master 18 12%
Researcher 16 10%
Student > Ph. D. Student 11 7%
Professor 10 7%
Other 32 21%
Unknown 45 29%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 34 22%
Nursing and Health Professions 25 16%
Sports and Recreations 10 7%
Psychology 9 6%
Social Sciences 6 4%
Other 20 13%
Unknown 49 32%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 7. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 20 September 2016.
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#4,446,553
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#4,862
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#81,623
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#125
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