3128.0 Obesity and Nutrition

Monday, October 29, 2012: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Oral
Session Objectives: Describe distributions of obesity status within different family configurations and variation with adult food-related behaviors. Describe the relationship between pregnancy glucose levels below those diagnostic of disease and subsequent childhood obesity. Assess the longitudinal role of metabolic biomarkers and sociodemographic factors as predictors of overall, cancer and CVD mortality in US adults Identify risk factors of sleep insufficiency. Describe strategies to improve how individuals of different sociodemographic backgrounds can obtain health-related information through the internet.
Moderator:
Michelle Davis

10:30am
Introductory Remarks
10:35am
Inter- and intra- generational transmission of obesity: Evaluating parent and child obesity in a new health behavior dataset
Mark C. Pachucki, PhD, Michael F. Lovenheim, PhD and Matthew Harding, PhD
10:50am
Programming for childhood obesity by pregnancy glycemia among Mexican-American women without diabetes or gestational diabetes
Samantha Ehrlich, PhD
11:05am
A longitudinal analysis of metabolic biomarkers and selected predictors of overall, cancer and CVD mortality in US adults
Eduardo Velasco, MD, MSc, PhD, Michael Harhay, MA, MPH, Mian B. Hossain, PhD and Alejandro Gugliucci, MD, PhD
     
11:20am
Frequent Sleep Insufficiency among Adults in Georgia: 2008-2010 BRFSS Results
Chad Neilsen, MPH, Suparna Bagchi, MS, DrPH and Viani Ramirez-Irizarry, MPH
  
11:35am
Internet use for health information and its association with awareness of and compliance with physical activity guidelines among U.S. adults, 2009
Nan Xiang, BS, Brook Belay, MD, MPH, Janet E. Fulton, PhD and Heidi M. Blanck, PhD
     
11:50am
Concluding Remarks

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: Epidemiology
Endorsed by: Physical Activity

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH) , Masters Certified Health Education Specialist (MCHES)

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