ArticleAmerican journal of preventive medicine2025
Childhood Food Insecurity Trajectories and Adult Weight and Self-Reported Health.
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- Social Capital in the Newborn Period and Household Food Insecurity at Child Age Two Years.Academic pediatrics · 2026Article
- Persistent Food Insecurity and Overweight/Obesity Risk in Offspring of Individuals With Gestational Diabetes.Pediatric obesity · 2026Observational
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- Household food insecurity, dietary intake, and weight status among children in Madrid, Spain: A cross-sectional study.PloS one · 2026Article
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introductionResearch has demonstrated that food insecurity during childhood is associated with worse physical and mental health in childhood. However, little is known about how food insecurity during childhood impacts health outcomes in young adulthood.
methodsThis study analyzed data from the Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study (2024), a longitudinal birth cohort study of children born in 1998-2000. Childhood food insecurity trajectory groups from age 3 to 15 years were identified using group-based trajectory modeling. Associations between childhood food insecurity trajectory groups and young adult weight (BMI, overweight status, and obese status) and high self-reported health (very good/excellent) at age 22 were modeled with multivariate linear and logistic regression.
resultsThree trajectories were identified among 4,296 participants: 66.9% were food secure, 7.5% were food insecure, and 25.6% transitioned from being food insecure-to-secure throughout childhood. In adjusted analyses, young adults assigned to the food insecure-to-secure trajectory group as children had higher BMI (B=0.82, 95% CI=0.07, 1.58) and higher odds of overweight status (OR= 1.24, 95% CI=1.01, 1.52) than young adults assigned to the food secure trajectory group as children. Young adults in the food insecure trajectory group as children had lower odds of high self-reported health than those in the food secure trajectory group as children (OR=0.65, 95% CI=0.48, 0.89).
conclusionsFood insecurity in childhood is associated with high weight status and poor self-reported health in young adulthood. These findings highlight the importance of childhood food insecurity screening and interventions to promote health throughout the life course.
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