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- Title
Food insecurity increases the odds of obesity among Iranian women: A population-based study of northwestern Iran.
- Authors
Nikniaz, Leila; Tabrizi, Jafar S.; Sadeghi‐Bazargani, Homayoun; Farahbakhsh, Mostafa; Nikniaz, Zeinab
- Abstract
Aim: The main objective of the present study was to evaluate the association between obesity and food security status. The sample comprised of Iranian adults with an age range of 15-64 years. Methods: In this cross-sectional study (n = 1277), the short form of the Household Food Security Scale was used to determine food security status. Height, weight and waist and hip circumferences were measured, and body mass index, waist-to-hip ratio, waist-to-height ratio and conicity index (CI) were also calculated. One-way analysis of variance and logistic regression were used for statistical analyses. Results: There were no statistically significant differences in the mean anthropometric measurements of males and females with different food security status (P > 0.05). After adjusting for covariates, there was no statistically signifi- cant association between food security status and anthropometric measurements in men. However, the low foodsecure females were 72% more likely to be overweight in comparison with very low food-secure women (P = 0.04). Moreover, food-secure females were 32% less likely to have CI >1.25 compared with very low food-secure females (P = 0.04). Conclusions: The results showed that there is an association between food insecurity and overweight, which is consistent with the finding of prior researches. In addition, for the first time, we showed the significant association between low food security and CI.
- Subjects
IRAN; CHI-squared test; INTERVIEWING; OBESITY; PROBABILITY theory; QUESTIONNAIRES; STATISTICAL sampling; T-test (Statistics); LOGISTIC regression analysis; OBESITY risk factors; MULTIPLE regression analysis; BODY mass index; CROSS-sectional method; WAIST-hip ratio; FOOD security; DATA analysis software; WAIST circumference; DESCRIPTIVE statistics
- Publication
Nutrition & Dietetics, 2017, Vol 74, Issue 5, p454
- ISSN
1446-6368
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1747-0080.12356