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Pathways to obesity in a developing population: The Guangzhou Biobank Cohort Study

Author(s) -

S Kavikondala,

C. Mary Schooling,

Chao Jiang,

Wei Zhang,

Kar Keung Cheng,

TH Lam,

GM Leung

Publication year - 2008

Publication title -

international journal of epidemiology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.406

H-Index - 208

eISSN - 1464-3685

pISSN - 0300-5771

DOI - 10.1093/ije/dyn221

Subject(s) - body mass index , obesity , medicine , demography , confidence interval , waist–hip ratio , waist , cohort study , population , cohort , life course approach , cross sectional study , gerontology , biobank , environmental health , psychology , bioinformatics , sociology , social psychology , pathology , biology

'Environmental mismatch' may contribute to obesity in rapidly developing societies, because poor early life conditions could increase the risk of obesity in a subsequently more socio-economically developed environment. In a recently developing population (from southern China) we examined the association of life-course socio-economic position (SEP) with obesity.

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