Clusters of obesogenic behaviors and metabolic risk according to somatic maturity status among adolescents

• Autor(a) principal: Magalhães, Kleberton C. S.
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Matias, Thiago S., Araujo, Raphael H., Werneck, André O., Ferrari, Gerson, Luz, Leonardo G. O., Fernandes, Rômulo A. [UNESP], Barbosa, Décio S., Ronque, Enio R. V., Cyrino, Edilson S., Silva, Danilo R.
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.23778; http://hdl.handle.net/11449/240393

Objective: This study aimed to identify the clusters of obesogenic behaviors, and verify the association with metabolic risk according to the categories of somatic maturity status of adolescents. Methods: This is a cross-sectional study conducted with 1159 (55.1% girls) Brazilian adolescents aged between 10 and 16 years (mean age: 12.9 years). Measurements of waist circumference, blood pressure, blood glucose, HDL-C, and triglycerides were combined to calculate a metabolic risk score. Somatic maturity was assessed by estimating the peak of height velocity. The obesogenic behaviors analyzed were physical activity (Baecke questionnaire), sedentary behavior (screen-based behaviors) and dietary habits (consumption of healthy and unhealthy food). The Two Step clustering algorithm using the log-likelihood measure was employed to cluster formation and regression models were adopted to the main analysis. Results: We observed a complex co-existence of obesogenic behaviors. Differences regarding the metabolic risk between clusters was only observed among the early-maturing adolescents, where the cluster with higher number of healthy behaviors but lower physical activity presented higher metabolic risk score. Conclusions: We conclude that physical activity has an important role on the association of clusters of obesogenic behaviors and metabolic risk in early-maturing adolescents.