TY - JOUR T1 - Excess weight in adolescents and associated factors: data from the ERICA study JO - Jornal de Pediatria (English Edition) T2 - AU - Lima,Niedja Maria da Silva AU - Leal,Vanessa Sá AU - Oliveira,Juliana Souza AU - Andrade,Maria Izabel Siqueira de AU - Santos,Natália Fernandes dos AU - Pessoa,Jussara Tavares AU - Aquino,Nathalia Barbosa de AU - Lira,Pedro Israel Cabral de SN - 00217557 M3 - 10.1016/j.jped.2021.02.008 DO - 10.1016/j.jped.2021.02.008 UR - https://jped.elsevier.es/en-excess-weight-in-adolescents-associated-articulo-S0021755721000553 AB - ObjectiveTo estimate the prevalence of excessive weight and to identify associations with socioeconomic, demographic, biological, and lifestyle factors in adolescents. MethodsIt is a cross-sectional school-based study, with a stratified and complex sample. The evaluated individuals were adolescents (2404), aged 12–17 years old, participating in the Study of Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Adolescents (ERICA). Demographic, socioeconomic, biological, anthropometric, and lifestyle variables were assessed. Poisson regression was used to verify the association between excess weight and independent variables. ResultsThe prevalence of excessive weight was 26.3% in the study population, being 16.3% for overweight and 10% for obesity. In the multivariate analysis (hierarchical model), were associated with excessive weight: private education network, a higher number of televisions in the residence, eating habits related to the breakfast consumption, snacks purchase in the canteen, snacks in front to screens consumption and consumption of carbohydrates and lipids, in addition to age group (12–14 years) and sexual maturation (post-pubertal). ConclusionsThe prevalence of excessive weight among the school adolescents studied is high, with a value higher than the national average and the results of previous studies with adolescents. Its distribution is associated with different factors, which are socioeconomic, demographic, biological, and related to lifestyle, reinforcing the complexity of this condition, which deserves a broad coping approach, involving not only individual efforts but social and public ones as well. ER -