The stability of weight status through the early to middle childhood years in Australia: a longitudinal study Wheaton, Nikita, Millar, Lynne, Allender, Steven and Nichols, Melanie 2015, The stability of weight status through the early to middle childhood years in Australia: a longitudinal study, BMJ open, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 1-9, doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2014-006963. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads wheaton-thestabilityofweight-2015.pdf Published version application/pdf 4.88MB 116 Title The stability of weight status through the early to middle childhood years in Australia: a longitudinal study Author(s) Wheaton, Nikita Millar, Lynne Allender, Steven orcid.org/0000-0002-4842-3294 Nichols, Melanie orcid.org/0000-0002-7834-5899 Journal name BMJ open Volume number 5 Issue number 4 Start page 1 End page 9 Total pages 9 Publisher BMJ Journals Place of publication London, Eng. Publication date 2015 ISSN 2044-6055 Keyword(s) Tracking early childhood longitudinal socio-demographic and behavioural factors weight status Science & Technology Life Sciences & Biomedicine Medicine, General & Internal General & Internal Medicine BODY-MASS INDEX SOCIOECONOMIC-STATUS PREDICTING OBESITY PHYSICAL-ACTIVITY SCHOOL-CHILDREN EARLY ADULTHOOD OVERWEIGHT POPULATION ADIPOSITY CONSUMPTION Summary OBJECTIVES: To investigate the sociodemographic and behavioural factors associated with incidence, persistence or remission of obesity in a longitudinal sample of Australian children aged 4-10 years. SETTING: Nationally representative Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC). PARTICIPANTS: The sample for this analysis included all children in the Kinder cohort (aged 4-5 years at wave 1) who participated in all four waves of LSAC (wave 1, 2004, aged 4-5 years; wave 2, 2006, aged 6-7 years; wave 3, 2008, aged 8-9 years and wave 4, 2010, aged 10-11 years). Of the 4983 children who participated in the baseline (wave 1) survey, 4169 (83.7%) children completed all four waves of data collection. PRIMARY AND SECONDARY OUTCOME MEASURES: Movement of children between weight status categories over time and individual-level predictors of weight status change (sociodemographic characteristics, selected dietary and activity behaviours). RESULTS: The study found tracking of weight status across this period of childhood. There was an inverse association observed between socioeconomic position and persistence of overweight/obesity. Sugar-sweetened beverages and fruit and vegetable intake and screen time appeared to be important predictors of stronger tracking. CONCLUSIONS: Overweight and obesity established early in childhood tracks strongly to the middle childhood years in Australia, particularly among children of lower socioeconomic position and children participating in some unhealthy behaviour patterns. Language eng DOI 10.1136/bmjopen-2014-006963 Field of Research 111704 Community Child Health 111706 Epidemiology Socio Economic Objective 920501 Child Health HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal Copyright notice ©2015, BMJ Journals Free to Read? Yes Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30074198 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Health School of Health and Social Development Population Health Open Access Collection Related Links Link Description Connect to Elements publication management system Go to link with your DU access privileges   Connect to published version Go to link with your DU access privileges   Author URL Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Every reasonable effort has been made to ensure that permission has been obtained for items included in DRO. If you believe that your rights have been infringed by this repository, please contact drosupport@deakin.edu.au. Versions Version Filter Type Thu, 09 Jul 2015, 12:23:18 EST Thu, 09 Jul 2015, 14:02:56 EST Thu, 09 Jul 2015, 14:14:13 EST Thu, 10 Sep 2015, 06:09:53 EST Wed, 11 Nov 2015, 10:27:23 EST Thu, 12 Nov 2015, 10:28:13 EST Tue, 17 Nov 2015, 11:43:46 EST Wed, 07 Sep 2016, 09:52:00 EST Wed, 09 Nov 2016, 11:20:30 EST Wed, 06 Dec 2017, 06:15:37 EST Fri, 07 Sep 2018, 17:35:04 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 35 times in TR Web of Science Cited 35 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 642 Abstract Views, 118 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Thu, 09 Jul 2015, 12:23:18 EST