Open AccessAssociation between age at arrival, duration of migration, and overweight/obesity in Chinese rural-to-urban migrants: the Yi migrant study
Author(s) -
Ye Wang,
Li Pan,
Shaoping Wan,
Huowuli Yi,
Fang Yang,
Huijing He,
Zheng Li,
Jia Zhang,
Zhengping Yong,
Guangliang Shan
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
chinese medical journal/chinese medical journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.537
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 2542-5641
pISSN - 0366-6999
DOI - 10.1097/cm9.0000000000000973
Subject(s) - overweight , obesity , demography , body mass index , medicine , logistic regression , anthropometry , confounding , urbanization , china , confidence interval , cross sectional study , geography , sociology , archaeology , pathology , economics , economic growth
Urbanization in China is rapidly proceeding, but rural-to-urban migration and its association with overweight and obesity is not well studied. This study aimed to explore the age at arrival, duration of migration, and the corresponding association with overweight/obesity in Yi migrants in China.