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dc.contributor.authorBratberg, Grete Helen
dc.contributor.authorNilsen, Tom Ivar Lund
dc.contributor.authorHolmen, Turid Lingaas
dc.contributor.authorVatten, Lars Johan
dc.date.accessioned2015-09-11T12:07:25Z
dc.date.accessioned2015-10-01T09:13:30Z
dc.date.available2015-09-11T12:07:25Z
dc.date.available2015-10-01T09:13:30Z
dc.date.issued2007
dc.identifier.citationBMC Public Health 2007, 7nb_NO
dc.identifier.issn1471-2458
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11250/1556216
dc.description.abstractBackground: Early sexual maturation has been associated with overweight that may persist after the completion of biological growth and development. We have prospectively examined the influence of early sexual maturation on subsequent overweight in late adolescence and assessed if this association was modified by central adiposity in early adolescence. Methods: 1605 Norwegian adolescents were followed from early (baseline, mean age 14.2 years) to late adolescence (follow-up, mean age 18.2 years). Maturational timing was assessed by selfreports of pubertal status (PDS) in boys and age at menarche (AAM) in girls. Central adiposity was classified according to waist circumference (waist) measured at baseline, using age and gender specific medians as cut off. Overweight was classified according to International Obesity Task Force (IOTF) standards. Results: At follow-up, early sexual maturation in girls, but not in boys, was associated with overweight. This association, however, was restricted to girls with high waist circumference (> median) at baseline (OR, 2.7, 95% CI 1.5–4.9). Thus, age at menarche was not associated with overweight in girls with low waist (≤ median) at baseline. Central adiposity was, independent of maturational timing, associated with higher BMI at follow-up in both genders, but differences were more pronounced among early matured girls (3.5 kg/m2), than among intermediate (2.7 kg/m2) and late matured girls (1.2 kg/m2). Conclusion: In girls, the combination of central adiposity and early age at menarche appears to increase the risk of being overweight in late adolescence.nb_NO
dc.language.isoengnb_NO
dc.publisherBioMed Centralnb_NO
dc.titleEarly sexual maturation, central adiposity and subsequent overweight in late adolescence. A four-year follow-up of 1605 adolescent Norwegian boys and girls: the Young HUNT studynb_NO
dc.typeJournal articlenb_NO
dc.typePeer revieweden_GB
dc.date.updated2015-09-11T12:07:25Z
dc.source.volume7nb_NO
dc.source.journalBMC Public Healthnb_NO
dc.identifier.doi10.1186/1471-2458-7-54
dc.identifier.cristin369083
dc.description.localcode© 2007 Bratberg et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.nb_NO


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