Socioeconomic status as determinant of risk factors for overweight in adolescents.
OBJECTIVE
To analyze risk factors for overweight among adolescents grouped in three different socioeconomic levels.


METHODS
This cross-sectional study included 1779 adolescents aged 11 to 17 years, grouped according to socioeconomic status (low, middle, and high). Parents reported their own anthropometric data and the adolescents had their anthropometric data taken by trained researchers, and completed three questionnaires.


RESULTS
The prevalence of overweight was 16.7%, 23.8%, and 26.3% in low, middle and high socioeconomic status, respectively (P= 0.001). In all socioeconomic status, parent's overweight was associated with adolescent overweight (all P< 0.05). The students in both high (PR= 1.90) and middle socioeconomic status (PR= 2.00) from private schools were associated with overweight, and the students from low socioeconomic level to sedentary behavior (PR= 2.25) and high ingestion of fried food (PR= 2.35).


CONCLUSIONS
In each socioeconomic status the overweight was associated with different risk factors in different ways, except for parents overweight.
Departamento de Educação Física, Universidade do Oeste Paulista, Presidente Prudente, SP. diegochristofaro@yahoo.com.br
Rômulo Araújo
RA
Fernandes
Diego Giulliano Destro
DG
Christofaro
Jefferson Rosa
JR
Cardoso
Enio Ricardo Vaz
ER
Ronque
Ismael Forte
IF
Freitas Júnior
Sandra Satie
SS
Kawaguti
Augusto César Ferreira de
AC
Moraes
Arli Ramos de
AR
Oliveira
D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D050177:Overweight / Q000453:epidemiology*; D012307:Risk Factors; D012923:Social Class