Economic Impacts of Overweight and Obesity: Current and Future Estimates for Eight Countriesdoi:10.2139/ssrn.3781703Background: Obesity continues to be a growing public health challenge worldwide with significant health and economic impacts. However, much of what is known aboOkunogbe, Adeyemi...
The objective of this study was to evaluate the relationship between overweight and obesity and socioeconomic level in children aged 6.0-7.9 years from Maring谩, Paran谩. Body mass index (BMI) was used for the assessment of nutritional status. Family socioeconomic status was classified based on ...
Objectives: The study aims to find the prevalence of overweight and obesity, and its association with socio-economic change among Tangkhul Naga women of Manipur, North East India and also to compare with other female populations of India. Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out among ...
(1) To determine the prevalence of overweight and obesity in Australian 4–5-year-old children. (2) To investigate associations between socio-economic characteristics and (a) overweight/obesity and (b) waist circumference. Cross-sectional population surv
Background Previous research has found that the prevalence of childhood overweight/obesity varies depending on household income, ethnicity, and sex. The goal of our research is to examine changes over time in socioeconomic inequality and the prevalence of overweight/obesity among American children under...
Obesity and its complications are associated with high morbidity/mortality and a significant healthcare cost burden in Spain. It is therefore essential to
Previous data indicate a rapidly increasing prevalence of obesity and overweight among English children and an emerging socioeconomic gradient in prevalence. The main aim of this study was to update the prevalence trends among school-age children and assess the changing socioeconomic gradient. Design:...
We divided 2,491 participants (1,081 men and 1,410 women) according to the WHO definitions of underweight, overweight or obesity and performed multinomial logistic analyses using BMI <18.5 kg/m2(underweight), BMI 25.0–29.9 kg/m2(overweight), and BMI ≥30.0 kg/m2(obese) versus BMI 18.5–...
Imbalanced diets, such as diets too low in fruits, vegetables, legumes and nuts, and too high in red and processed meat, are responsible for the greatest mortality burden globally and in most regions1, and the prevalence of overweight and obesity has increased by over a third in the last ...
Elucidating the relationship between SES and overweight and its influence on social network formation can contribute to the design of preventative strategies against overweight and obesity in adolescents, since their social environment can provide them with several resources to combat excess weight. 展开 ...