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Titre :	Maturational timing and overweight prevalence in US adolescent girls. (2001)
Auteurs :	Linda-S ADAIR ; Penny GORDON-LARSEN ; Department of Nutrition. Schools of Public Health and Medicine. Carolina Population Center. University of North Carolina. Chapel Hill. USA
Type de document :	Article
Dans :	American journal of public health (vol. 91, n° 4, 2001)
Pagination :	642-644
Langues:	Anglais
Mots-clés :	Prévalence ; Adolescent ; Homme ; Femme ; Age ; Etats Unis ; Amérique ; Race ; Ethnie ; Epidémiologie ; Amérique du Nord
Résumé :	[BDSP. Notice produite par INIST lwMXR0xA. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. Objectives. This study examined the relation of age at menarche to overweight in US adolescent girls. Methods. Effects of age at menarche and race/ethnicity on overweight were estimated via logistic regression, after adjustment for sociodemographic characteristics, in a sample of 6507 Hispanic, Black, White, and Asian American girls who participated in wave 2 of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. Results. Overweight prevalence rates were significantly higher in early maturing adolescents of all racial/ethnic groups but highest (57.5%) among early maturing Black girls. Early maturation nearly doubled the odds of being overweight (body mass index at or above the 85th percentile). Conclusions. Greater public health attention should be focused on the high prevalence of overweight, particularly among minority female adolescents.

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