Open AccessChildcare Attendance and Obesity Risk
Author(s) -
Inyang A. Isong,
Tracy K. Richmond,
Ichiro Kawachi,
Mauricio Avendaño
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
pediatrics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.611
H-Index - 345
eISSN - 1098-4275
pISSN - 0031-4005
DOI - 10.1542/peds.2016-1539
Subject(s) - medicine , confounding , overweight , attendance , obesity , demography , childhood obesity , observational study , longitudinal study , instrumental variable , body mass index , fixed effects model , ordinary least squares , gerontology , panel data , statistics , mathematics , pathology , sociology , economics , economic growth
Several observational studies have revealed that children who receive nonparental childcare are at increased risk of obesity. However, this may be due to unmeasured confounding or selection into different types of childcare. It is not well established whether this association reflects a causal effect of childcare attendance on obesity risk. We examined the effect of attending childcare on children's BMI z scores, using nationally representative data of ∼10 700 children followed from age 9 months through kindergarten entry.
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