Risk factors associated with overweight and obesity among female Mexican teenagers

• Main Authors: María Concepción Medina-Zacarías (Author), Teresa Shamah-Levy (Author), Lucía Cuevas-Nasu (Author), Ignacio Méndez Gómez-Humarán (Author), Sonia Lizeth Hernández-Cordero (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, 2020-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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• Notes: 0036-3634; 10.21149/10388
• Keywords: factores de riesgo; sobrepeso; obesidad; mujeres; adolescentes; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270
• Source: Salud Pública de México, Vol 62, Iss 2, Mar-Abr, Pp 125-136 (2020)

Objective. To analyze risk factors associated with over­weight and obesity (OW+O) among female Mexican teen­agers (12 to 19 years old). Materials and methods. Secondary analysis of 1 072 teenagers from the Halfway National Survey of Health and Nutrition (Ensanut MC, 2016). Ordinal logistic regression models were used to estimate the association between OW+O and screen time, living with adults with OW+O, marital union, and dietary patterns, among others. Results. OW+O in adolescents was higher when living with overweighed and obese adults (OR= 2.13), >2 hours of screen time (OR= 2.5), discretionary food con­sumption pattern (OR= 1.81), living in marital union (OR = 2.13), classified in the highest tertile of household wealth index (OR= 1.86), work and doing housework (OR= 5.4). Conclusions. The most important risk factors associated with OW+O in Mexican teenagers were related to family factors and lifestyles.