Associations Between Macrolevel Economic Factors and Weight Distributions in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Multilevel Analysis of 200 000 Adults in 40 Countries | Zendy

Arijit Nandi | Zendy; Elizabeth Sweet | Zendy; Ichiro Kawachi | Zendy; Jody Heymann | Zendy; Sandro Galea | Zendy

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Associations 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,

Jody Heymann,

Sandro Galea

Publication year - 2013

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.

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