Open AccessAssociations Between Macrolevel Economic Factors and Weight Distributions in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Multilevel Analysis of 200 000 Adults in 40 Countries
Author(s) -
Arijit Nandi,
Elizabeth Sweet,
Ichiro Kawachi,
Heymann Jody,
Sandro Galea
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284
H-Index - 264
eISSN - 1541-0048
pISSN - 0090-0036
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.2013.301392
Subject(s) - underweight , overweight , demography , odds ratio , body mass index , medicine , confidence interval , odds , obesity , environmental health , logistic regression , sociology
We examined associations between macrolevel economic factors hypothesized to drive changes in distributions of weight and body mass index (BMI) in a representative sample of 200,796 men and women from 40 low- and middle-income countries.