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Variation in the relationship between birth weight and subsequent obesity by household income

Overview of attention for article published in Health Economics Review, May 2017
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Title
Variation in the relationship between birth weight and subsequent obesity by household income
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Health Economics Review, May 2017
DOI 10.1186/s13561-017-0154-6
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Jonas Minet Kinge

Abstract

There is evidence to suggest that high birth weight increases subsequent BMI. However, little attention has been paid to variations in this impact between population groups. This study investigates the relationship between high birth weight and subsequent obesity, and whether or not this relationship varies by household income. Data was taken from fourteen rounds of the Health Survey for England (between 2000-2014; N = 31,043) for children aged 2-16. We regressed obesity in childhood against birth weight, accounting for interactions between birth weight and household income, using sibling-fixed effects models. High birth weight was associated with increased risk of subsequent obesity. This association was significantly more pronounced in children from low-income families, compared with children from high-income families. A 1 kg increase in birth weight increased the probability of obesity by 7% in the lowest income tertile and 4% in the highest income tertile. This suggests that early socioeconomic deprivation compound the effect of high birth weight on obesity.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 37 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 7 19%
Student > Master 7 19%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 8%
Student > Ph. D. Student 3 8%
Other 2 5%
Other 5 14%
Unknown 10 27%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 9 24%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 4 11%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 3 8%
Psychology 2 5%
Medicine and Dentistry 2 5%
Other 5 14%
Unknown 12 32%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. 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 23 September 2019.
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#6,392,534
of 22,971,207 outputs
Outputs from Health Economics Review
#108
of 430 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#101,704
of 309,986 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Health Economics Review
#3
of 11 outputs
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