Racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic differences in the incidence of obesity related to childbirth

E.M. Davis, S.J. Zyzanski, C.M. Olson, K.C. Stange and R.I. Horwitz

American Journal of Public Health, 2009, vol. 99, issue 2, 294-299

Abstract: Objectives. We investigated the relationship between childbirth and 5-year incidence of obesity. Methods. We performed a prospective analysis of data on 2923 nonobese, nonpregnant women aged 14 to 22 years from the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth Cohort, which was followed from 1980 to 1990. We used multivariable logistic regression analyses to determine the adjusted relative risk of obesity for mothers 5 years after childbirth compared with women who did not have children. Results. The 5-year incidence of obesity was 11.3 per 100 parous women, compared with 4.5 per 100 nulliparous women (relative risk [RR]=3.5; 95% confidence interval [CI]=2.4, 4.9; P

Date: 2009
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