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spelling Clifford, Susan A Gillespie, Alanna N Olds, Timothy Grobler, Anneke C Wake, Melissa 2044-6055 2044-6055 BMJ General Medicine http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-023698 <jats:sec><jats:title>Objectives</jats:title><jats:p>Overweight and obesity remain at historically high levels, cluster within families and are established risk factors for multiple diseases. We describe the epidemiology and cross-generational concordance of body composition among Australian children aged 11–12 years and their parents.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Design</jats:title><jats:p>The population-based cross-sectional Child Health CheckPoint study, nested within the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC).</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Setting</jats:title><jats:p>Assessment centres in seven major Australian cities and eight regional cities, or home visits; February 2015–March 2016.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Participants</jats:title><jats:p>Of all participating CheckPoint families (n=1874), body composition data were available for 1872 children (49% girls) and 1852 parents (mean age 43.7 years; 88% mothers), including 1830 biological parent-child pairs.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Measures</jats:title><jats:p>Height, weight, body mass index (BMI), waist circumference and waist-to-height ratio for all participants; body fat and fat-free mass by four-limb bioimpedence analysis (BIA) at assessment centres, or body fat percentage by two-limb BIA at home visits. <jats:italic>Analysis:</jats:italic> parent-child concordance was assessed using (i) Pearson’s correlation coefficients, and (ii) partial correlation coefficients adjusted for age, sex and socioeconomic disadvantage. Survey weights and methods accounted for LSAC’s complex sample design.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results</jats:title><jats:p>20.7% of children were overweight and 6.2% obese, as were 33.5% and 31.6% of parents. Boys and girls showed similar distributions for all body composition measures but, despite similar BMI and waist-to-height ratio, mothers had higher proportions of total and truncal fat than fathers. Parent-child partial correlations were greatest for height (0.37, 95% CI 0.33 to 0.42). Other anthropometric and fat/lean measures showed strikingly similar partial correlations, ranging from 0.25 (95% CI 0.20 to 0.29) for waist circumference to 0.30 (95% CI 0.25 to 0.34) for fat-free percentage. Whole-sample and sex-specific percentile values are provided for all measures.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusions</jats:title><jats:p>Excess adiposity remains prevalent in Australian children and parents. Moderate cross-generational concordance across all measures of leanness and adiposity is already evident by late childhood.</jats:p></jats:sec> Body composition: population epidemiology and concordance in Australian children aged 11–12 years and their parents BMJ Open
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spelling Clifford, Susan A Gillespie, Alanna N Olds, Timothy Grobler, Anneke C Wake, Melissa 2044-6055 2044-6055 BMJ General Medicine http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-023698 <jats:sec><jats:title>Objectives</jats:title><jats:p>Overweight and obesity remain at historically high levels, cluster within families and are established risk factors for multiple diseases. We describe the epidemiology and cross-generational concordance of body composition among Australian children aged 11–12 years and their parents.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Design</jats:title><jats:p>The population-based cross-sectional Child Health CheckPoint study, nested within the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC).</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Setting</jats:title><jats:p>Assessment centres in seven major Australian cities and eight regional cities, or home visits; February 2015–March 2016.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Participants</jats:title><jats:p>Of all participating CheckPoint families (n=1874), body composition data were available for 1872 children (49% girls) and 1852 parents (mean age 43.7 years; 88% mothers), including 1830 biological parent-child pairs.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Measures</jats:title><jats:p>Height, weight, body mass index (BMI), waist circumference and waist-to-height ratio for all participants; body fat and fat-free mass by four-limb bioimpedence analysis (BIA) at assessment centres, or body fat percentage by two-limb BIA at home visits. <jats:italic>Analysis:</jats:italic> parent-child concordance was assessed using (i) Pearson’s correlation coefficients, and (ii) partial correlation coefficients adjusted for age, sex and socioeconomic disadvantage. Survey weights and methods accounted for LSAC’s complex sample design.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results</jats:title><jats:p>20.7% of children were overweight and 6.2% obese, as were 33.5% and 31.6% of parents. Boys and girls showed similar distributions for all body composition measures but, despite similar BMI and waist-to-height ratio, mothers had higher proportions of total and truncal fat than fathers. Parent-child partial correlations were greatest for height (0.37, 95% CI 0.33 to 0.42). Other anthropometric and fat/lean measures showed strikingly similar partial correlations, ranging from 0.25 (95% CI 0.20 to 0.29) for waist circumference to 0.30 (95% CI 0.25 to 0.34) for fat-free percentage. Whole-sample and sex-specific percentile values are provided for all measures.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusions</jats:title><jats:p>Excess adiposity remains prevalent in Australian children and parents. Moderate cross-generational concordance across all measures of leanness and adiposity is already evident by late childhood.</jats:p></jats:sec> Body composition: population epidemiology and concordance in Australian children aged 11–12 years and their parents BMJ Open
spellingShingle Clifford, Susan A, Gillespie, Alanna N, Olds, Timothy, Grobler, Anneke C, Wake, Melissa, BMJ Open, Body composition: population epidemiology and concordance in Australian children aged 11–12 years and their parents, General Medicine
title Body composition: population epidemiology and concordance in Australian children aged 11–12 years and their parents
title_full Body composition: population epidemiology and concordance in Australian children aged 11–12 years and their parents
title_fullStr Body composition: population epidemiology and concordance in Australian children aged 11–12 years and their parents
title_full_unstemmed Body composition: population epidemiology and concordance in Australian children aged 11–12 years and their parents
title_short Body composition: population epidemiology and concordance in Australian children aged 11–12 years and their parents
title_sort body composition: population epidemiology and concordance in australian children aged 11–12 years and their parents
title_unstemmed Body composition: population epidemiology and concordance in Australian children aged 11–12 years and their parents
topic General Medicine
url http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-023698