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Revista de sanidad militar
versión impresa ISSN 0301-696X
Resumen
TORRES-HUERTA, Karen Noemi y LOPEZ-RIVERA, Luis Arturo. Military parents as a risk factor for overweight and childhood obesity. Conrolled study. Rev. sanid. mil. [online]. 2021, vol.75, n.1, e03. Epub 22-Sep-2023. ISSN 0301-696X. https://doi.org/10.56443/rsm.v75i1.200.
Introduction:
Childhood obesity is a global health problem.Associate overweight and obesity in children who attend to the Centro de Desarrollo Infantil Naval de México (CENDINMEX) to military parents.
Methods:
Descriptive, cross-sectional, quantitative, in infants between 2 and 5 years 11 months, in 2018. Somatometry (n=278) was performed, establishing the diagnosis of healthy, overweight or obesity, based on the z score of the Body Mass Index (BMI). The questionnaire was applied to their parents to collect data of interest.
Results:
Prevalence of overweight and obesity was 12.6%. When both parents belong to military, the risk of overweight/obesity was 6.97 more times. In the stratified analysis, when both parents are military and simultaneously the primary caregiver is someone other than the family, the risk was 12.6 more; When only one of them belongs to the militia and simultaneously the primary caregiver is someone other than the parents, the risk of overweight / obesity is 6.1 more times.
Conclusions:
The prevalence of overweight and obesity was higher than reported in the national literature. The hypothesis that the risk of overweight/obesity is greater when both parents are military was confirmed.
Palabras llave : Obesity childhood; family risk factors; family factors.