Reported Sports Participation, Race, Sex, Ethnicity, and Obesity in US Adolescents From NHANES Physical Activity (PAQ_D).
Abstract
Objective. To understand the relationships between participation in different types
of leisure time sport activity and adolescent obesity, and how those relationships
might differ based on race, gender, and household income. Methods. Data consisted
of 6667 students that took part in the 1999 to 2006 National Health and Nutrition
Examination Survey. The authors used adjusted Wald tests to examine differences in
the prevalence of obesity (body mass index >95th percentile for age and sex) by sport
for boys and girls separately. Results. Among adolescent youth age 12 to 19 years,
16.6% of male leisure time sport participants and 15.3% of female sport participants
were obese, compared with 23.6% for male nonathlete participant-in-other-activities
and 17.0% obesity rate for female nonathlete/participant-in-other-activities. For
both males and females, reported participation in leisure time sports decreased between
middle school and high school, and this reduction was associated with higher body
mass index.
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https://hdl.handle.net/10161/14017Published Version (Please cite this version)
10.1177/2333794X15577944Publication Info
Turner, Robert W; Perrin, Eliana M; Coyne-Beasley, Tamera; Peterson, Camilla J; &
Skinner, Asheley C (2015). Reported Sports Participation, Race, Sex, Ethnicity, and Obesity in US Adolescents
From NHANES Physical Activity (PAQ_D). Glob Pediatr Health, 2. 10.1177/2333794X15577944. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/14017.This is constructed from limited available data and may be imprecise. To cite this
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Eliana Miller Perrin
Adjunct Professor in the Department of Pediatrics
Eliana M. Perrin, MD, MPH is a graduate of Swarthmore College, the University of Rochester
School of Medicine (with AOA honors), and Stanford Pediatrics residency. She completed
a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Fellowship at the University of North Carolina-Chapel
Hill and earned her MPH also from UNC-CH. She was on the faculty of UNC for over 16
years, most recently as a tenured professor in the Department of Pediatrics. For the
three years prior to coming to Duke, she also served as
Asheley Cockrell Skinner
Professor in Population Health Sciences
Areas of expertise: Health Services Research, Implementation Science, Health Policy
and Epidemiology
Asheley Cockrell Skinner, PhD, is a health services researcher whose work addresses
a variety of population health issues, particularly implementation of programs to
improve the health of vulnerable populations. She is currently an Associate Professor
at Duke University in Population Health Sciences. She received her PhD in 2007 in
Health Policy and Administration at the Universit
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