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- Title
Relationship Between Smoking and Obesity Among Women.
- Authors
Patel, Kushal; Hargreaves, Margaret K.; Jianguo Liu; Schlundt, David; Sanderson, Maureen; Matthews, Charles E.; Dewey, Charlene M.; Kenerson, Donna; Buchowski, Maciej S.; Blot, William J.
- Abstract
Objectives: To examine the relationship between smoking and weight status in adult women and whether this association differed by race. Methods: The study sample consisted of 22,949 African American and 7831 white women enrolled in the Southern Community Cohort Study from 2002 to 2006. Results: Both African American and white current smokers had decreased odds of being overweight or obese compared to normal-weight nonsmokers, and the inverse trends between current smoking and BMI held for both groups. Conclusion: A strong relationship exists between smoking and weight status, with patterns nearly identical for African Americans and white women.
- Subjects
UNITED States; BLACK people; COMPUTER software; CONFIDENCE intervals; EPIDEMICS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; LONGITUDINAL method; MEDICAL cooperation; OBESITY; RACE; RESEARCH; RESEARCH funding; SMOKING; WHITE people; LOGISTIC regression analysis; DATA analysis; BODY mass index; DISEASE prevalence
- Publication
American Journal of Health Behavior, 2011, Vol 35, Issue 5, p627
- ISSN
1087-3244
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5993/AJHB.35.5.11