Family Income Gradients in Adolescent Obesity, Overweight and Adiposity Persist in Extremely Deprived and Extremely Affluent Neighbourhoods but Not in Middle-Class Neighbourhoods: Evidence from the UK Millennium Cohort Study

Family Income Gradients in Adolescent Obesity, Overweight and Adiposity Persist in Extremely Deprived and Extremely Affluent Neighbourhoods but Not in Middle-Class Neighbourhoods: Evidence from the UK Millennium Cohort Study

We investigated whether family income gradients in obesity, overweight, and adiposity persist at geographic-level deprivation quintiles using a nationally representative cohort of UK adolescents. Data from 11,714 eligible adolescents from the sixth sweep of the Millennium Cohort Study (14 years old)...

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Main Authors: Michael Osei Mireku, Alina Rodriguez
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-01-01
Series:International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Subjects:
socioeconomic
deprivation
geographic variation
adolescence
obesity
adiposity
bmi
inequality
family income
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/17/2/418

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