Education modifies the association of wealth with obesity in women in middle-income but not low-income countries: an interaction study using seven national datasets, 2005-2010

Education and wealth may have different associations with female obesity but this has not been investigated in detail outside high-income countries. This study examines the separate and inter-related associations of education and household wealth in relation to obesity in women in a representative s...

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Published in:PloS one 2014-03, Vol.9 (3), p.e90403-e90403
Main Authors: Aitsi-Selmi, Amina, Bell, Ruth, Shipley, Martin J, Marmot, Michael G
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adult
Analysis
Cardiovascular disease
Chronic illnesses
Cognition & reasoning
Cognitive ability
Colombia - epidemiology
Datasets
Demographics
Economic development
Education
Egypt - epidemiology
Epidemics
Epidemiology
Female
Food
Globalization
Health psychology
Health surveys
Households
Humans
Hypotheses
Income
Income - statistics & numerical data
India
Jordan - epidemiology
Low income groups
Medicine
Middle Aged
Obesity
Obesity - epidemiology
Personal income
Peru - epidemiology
Polls & surveys
Poverty
Public health
Regression models
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Society
Socioeconomic Factors
Statistical analysis
Studies
Surveys
Trends
Women
Women's associations
Womens health
Young Adult
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Summary:Education and wealth may have different associations with female obesity but this has not been investigated in detail outside high-income countries. This study examines the separate and inter-related associations of education and household wealth in relation to obesity in women in a representative sample of low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The seven largest national surveys were selected from a list of Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) ordered by decreasing sample size and resulted in a range of country income levels. These were nationally representative data of women aged 15-49 years collected in the period 2005-2010. The separate and joint effects, unadjusted and adjusted for age group, parity, and urban/rural residence using a multivariate logistic regression model are presented. In the four middle-income countries (Colombia, Peru, Jordan, and Egypt), an interaction was found between education and wealth on obesity (P-value for interaction
ISSN:1932-6203
1932-6203
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0090403