Association between socioeconomic status and obesity in a Chinese adult population

BMC Public Health

Research Article

Naiqing Zhao¹  Zhen Ye²  Ming Zhao³  Lixin Wang³  Weiwei Gong³  Ruying Hu³  Qingfang He³  Jie Zhang³  Hao Wang³  Xinwei Zhang³  Gangqiang Ding³  Liming Cong³  Danting Su³  Min Yu³  Yuanyuan Xiao⁴ 

[1] School of Public health, Fudan University, Shanghai, China;Zhejiang Health Bureau, 216 Qingchun Road, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China;Zhejiang Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Hangzhou Zhejiang, China;Zhejiang Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Hangzhou Zhejiang, China;School of Public health, Fudan University, Shanghai, China;

关键词: Socioeconomic status;    Obesity;    Association;    Cross-sectional study;   

DOI  :  10.1186/1471-2458-13-355

 received in 2012-11-26, accepted in 2013-04-09,  发布年份 2013

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundExisting studies which regarding to the association between individual socioeconomic status (SES) and obesity are still scarce in developing countries. The major aim of this study is to estimate such association in an adult population which was drawn from an economically prosperous province of China.MethodsStudy population was determined by multilevel randomized sampling. Education and income were chosen as indicators of individual SES, general obesity and abdominal obesity were measured by body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC). Descriptive statistical methods were used to depict overall and factor-specific distributions of general and abdominal obesity among 16,013 respondents. Two-step logistic regression models were fitted on gender basis.ResultsThe age-and-sex adjusted rates of general overweight, general obesity, abdominal overweight and abdominal obesity in study population were 28.9% (95%CI: 27.9%-29.9%), 7.5% (95%CI: 7.0%-8.1%), 32.2% (95%CI: 31.2%-33.3%) and 12.3% (95%CI: 11.6%-13.1%), respectively. Based on model fitting results, a significant inverse association between education and obesity only existed in women, while in men, income rather than education was positively related to obesity.ConclusionsThe atypical SES-obesity relationship we found reflected the on-going social economy transformation in affluent regions of China. High-income men and poorly-educated women were at higher risk of obesity in Zhejiang province, thus merit intense focuses.

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