Association of smoking with body weight in US high school students, 1999-2005
Dong-Chul Seo1, Nan Jiang, Lloyd J Kolbe
1Department of Applied Health Science, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA. seo@indiana.edu
Objectives:
To investigate the association of current smoking with body mass index (BMI) and perceived body weight among high school students in the United States.
Methods:
We analyzed data from the 1999-2005 Youth Risk Behavior Survey.
Results:
Perceived body weight and BMI were associated with adolescents' current smoking. Adjusted odds ratios of current smoking for overweight and at-risk-of-overweight BMI groups continued to increase over the entire survey years. The more recent the cohort, the stronger the link of current smoking with BMI and perceived body weight.
Conclusions:
The relationship between body weight and current smoking strengthened over time.
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