title: Obesity in urban black adolescents of high and low relative weight at 1 year of age.
abstract: The prevalence of obesity was determined in 789 9 to 15-year-old Philadelphia subjects who had either a high (+1 SD) or a low (-1, SD) relative weight at 1 year of age. During the adolescent years, obesity was assessed by the triceps skin-fold thickness and by the relative weight, using national reference standards from the US Health Examination Survey. The prevalence of obesity for the high relative weight group at 1 year of age was three to four times higher than in the low relative weight group at 1 year of age. Compared with all urban youth of this age range, regardless of their status at 1 year of age, it is estimated that the risk ratio associated with a high relative weight at 1 year of age is approximately 1.6.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001741:Black or African American; D001835:Body Weight; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D009765:Obesity / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology*; D010414:Pennsylvania; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012306:Risk; D012885:Skinfold Thickness