Journal article
Latent class analysis of obesity‐related characteristics and associations with body mass index among young children
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: Identifying how obesity-related characteristics cluster in populations is important to understand disease risk. Objectives of this study were to identify classes of children based on obesity-related variables and to evaluate the associations between the identified classes and overweight and obesity.
METHODS: A cross-sectional study was conducted among children 3-11 years of age (n = 5185) from the TARGet Kids! network (2008-2018). …
Authors
Anderson LN; Sandhu R; Keown‐Stoneman CDG; De Rubeis V; Borkhoff CM; Carsley S; Maguire JL; Birken CS
Journal
Obesity Science & Practice, Vol. 6, No. 4, pp. 390–400
Publisher
Wiley
Publication Date
August 2020
DOI
10.1002/osp4.414
ISSN
2055-2238