Contribution of discretionary food and drink consumption to socio-economic inequalities in children’s weight: prospective study of Australian children | Zendy

Alex Chung | Zendy; Anna Peeters | Zendy; Emma Gearon | Zendy; Kathryn Backholer | Zendy

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Contribution of discretionary food and drink consumption to socio-economic inequalities in children’s weight: prospective study of Australian children

Author(s) -

Alex Chung,

Anna Peeters,

Emma Gearon,

Kathryn Backholer

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

international journal of epidemiology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.406

H-Index - 208

eISSN - 1464-3685

pISSN - 0300-5771

DOI - 10.1093/ije/dyy020

Subject(s) - overweight , medicine , obesity , body mass index , demography , confidence interval , logistic regression , consumption (sociology) , childhood obesity , environmental health , pediatrics , social science , pathology , sociology

In high-income countries, children with a lower socio-economic position (SEP) are more likely to gain excess weight compared with children with a higher SEP. The extent to which children's consumption of discretionary food and drinks contributes to the development of these inequalities over childhood has not been examined.

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