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- Title
Educational status and patterns of weight gain in adulthood in Brazil: Estudo Pró-Saúde.
- Authors
de Jesus Mendes da Fonseca, Maria; de Figueiredo França, Rosana; Faerstein, Eduardo; Werneck, Guilherme Loureiro; Chor, Dóra
- Abstract
The aim of the present study was to investigate the association between participant and parental educational status (considered as an indicator of socioeconomic status) and participant pattern of weight gain in adulthood. We analyzed data from 2 582 baseline participants (1999) of Estudo Pró-Saúde (Pro-Health Study), a longitudinal investigation of civil servants from a public university in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Self-administered questionnaires were used to identify patterns of weight gain in adulthood. Odds ratios (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (95%CI) were estimated for the association between parental and participant educational status and steady weight gain or weight cycling, with stable weight as a reference, using multinomial logistic regression models. For males, lower paternal educational level entailed a chance about 55% lower of weight cycling as compared to stable weight (OR = 0.45; IC95% = 0.26--0.78), whereas lower maternal schooling was related to increased risk of weight cycling, although without reaching statistical significance (OR = 1.68; IC95% = 0.94--3.00). The association between participant educational status and weight history was not statistically significant among men. In women, lower educational status entailed a chance 94% higher of self-reported weight cycling (OR = 1.94; 95%CI = 1.17--3.23), and there was no association between parental educational level and history of weight gain. In this study, changes in weight throughout life, both steady and cyclic, were associated with parental and participant educational status, with major differences between genders.
- Subjects
BRAZIL; CHI-squared test; CONFIDENCE intervals; EPIDEMIOLOGY; LONGITUDINAL method; PARENTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESEARCH funding; WEIGHT gain; LOGISTIC regression analysis; DATA analysis; EDUCATIONAL attainment; DATA analysis software; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; ADULTS
- Publication
Pan American Journal of Public Health, 2012, Vol 32, Issue 5, p376
- ISSN
1020-4989
- Publication type
Article