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Associations between Childhood Weight Status and Timing of First Sex in an Ethnically Diverse Sample

Author(s) -

Jennifer C. Duckworth,

Mary Waldron

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

childhood obesity

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.913

H-Index - 38

eISSN - 2153-2176

pISSN - 2153-2168

DOI - 10.1089/chi.2018.0175

Subject(s) - demography , ethnic group , sexual intercourse , overweight , underweight , national longitudinal surveys , national survey of family growth , medicine , body mass index , psychology , gerontology , population , family planning , pathology , sociology , anthropology , economics , demographic economics , research methodology

Most research linking weight status and timing of first sexual intercourse is cross-sectional in design, with few longitudinal analyses published to date. We examined associations between childhood weight status and subsequent onset of first sexual intercourse within a survival analytic framework, testing for differences among Hispanic, black, and white females and males.

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