Socioeconomic inequality of overweight and obesity of the elderly in Iran: Bushehr Elderly Health (BEH) Program

Raeisi, Alireza; Mehboudi, M B; Darabi, Hossein; Nabipour, Iraj; Larijani, Bagher; Mehrdad, Neda; Heshmat, Ramin; Shafiee, Gita; Sharifi, Farshad; Ostovar, Afshin

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“…The present study findings revealed that obesity was significantly lower among males (9.4%) than females (19.3%), which was consistent with those of other studies on obesity (6,18,21,(24)(25)(26). In the gender ratio of the participants (i.e., M:F = 0.63), Vania et al, reported that the prevalence of obesity was 32% and 25% among females and (27).…”

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“…In Bushehr, the prevalence of obesity and overweight was assessed in males and females above 64 years old and the results showed that 57.7% and 14.7% of males were overweight and obese, respectively. As for the females, these variables were 73.2% and 33.7%, respectively, which showed a gender tendency toward overweight and obesity in the studied population (21) (22). A study from Hormozgan province, on subjects aged 18 -64 years, showed that the prevalence of obesity was 12%, which was 7% in males and 14.7% in females (23).…”

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Obesity: An Inevitable Consequence of Urbanization

Farshidi

Rad

Eftekhaari

et al. 2019

Hormozgan medical journal

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Background: Today, obesity is a key healthcare problem on a global scale including Iran. The present study aimed at determining the prevalence of overweight and obesity in Hormozgan province, Iran to propose effective healthcare programs and strategies to reduce this dilemma in future. Objectives: The current study conducted in the South of Iran aimed at exploring the prevalence of overweigh and obesity in males and females in terms of social variables affected by demographic variables such as age, gender, marital status, education level, smoking, and physical activity. Methods: In the current cross sectional, observational study, a sample of 5000 eligible males and females above 18 years old were selected based on a multi-stratified clustering sampling method. The data were collected by a researcher-made questionnaire consisting of variables such as weight, height, drug consumption, and physical activity. Statistical analysis was performed. Results: The present study findings revealed that 31.8% of the population in Hormozgan province was overweight, while only 15.2% were obese. The highest percentage of obesity (18.3%) was observed among the subjects aged 35-44 years. The prevalence of obesity among females was higher in urban population. Conclusions: The current study results showed that the urban married middle-aged females had the highest rate of obesity, which requires appropriate educational planning and utilization of efficient models in the realm of females' health.

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Obesity: An Inevitable Consequence of Urbanization

Farshidi

Rad

Eftekhaari

et al. 2019

Hormozgan medical journal

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“…Conversely, a recent study conducted by Ratnaprabha et al in Bangalore, India documented that literate subjects had 5•3 times higher risk of becoming OW/OB possibly due to better social conditions and better access to food (12) . Several studies conducted in Brazil, Iran and Spain have reported increasing income as an important risk factor for OW/OB among geriatric subjects, as observed in the present study (32)(33)(34)(35) , whereas geriatric subjects having less than Rs 1000/month per capita income has been associated with 2•5 times higher chances of becoming UW in an earlier study conducted by Kalaiselvi et al in Puducherry (7) . This suggests that educational status and economic status may have an important effect on the weight status of geriatric subjects.…”

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Prevalence and risk factors of underweight, overweight and obesity among a geriatric population living in a high-altitude region of rural Uttarakhand, India

Gupta

Kapil

Khandelwal

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Public Health Nutr.

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“…Although the current studies assessed the effect of different socioeconomic factors on overweight and obesity in Iran, there are limited numbers of studies [25,26] aimed to quantify socioeconomic inequalities in overweight and obesity in certain provinces of Iran. Accordingly, the main aim of the present study was to measure socioeconomic inequalities in overweight and obesity and then to identify the major contributors to the measured inequality in the outcome variables.…”

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Socioeconomic - related inequalities in overweight and obesity: findings from the PERSIAN cohort study

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Background: Overweight and obesity are major health concerns worldwide, with adverse health consequences during the life span. This study measured socioeconomic inequality in overweight and obesity among Iranian adults. Methods: Data were extracted from 129,257 Iranian adults (aged 35 years and older) participated in the Prospective Epidemiologic Research Studies in IrAN (PERSIAN) in 14 provinces of Iran in 2014. Socioeconomic-related inequality in overweight and obesity was estimated using the Concentration Index (C n ). The C n further decomposed to find factors explaining the variability within the Socioeconomic related inequality in overweight and obesity. Results: Of the total number of participants, 1.98, 26.82, 40.76 and 30.43% had underweight, normal weight, overweight and obesity respectively. The age-and sex standardized prevalence of obesity was higher in females than males (39.85% vs 18.79%). People with high socioeconomic status (SES) had a 39 and 15% higher chance of being overweight and obese than low SES people, respectively. The positive value of C n suggested a higher concentration of overweight (0.081, 95% confidence interval [CI]; 0.074-0.087) and obesity (0.027, 95% CI; 0.021-0.034) among groups with high SES. There was a wide variation in socioeconomic-related inequality in overweight and obesity rate across 14 provinces. The decomposition results suggested that SES factor itself explained 66.77 and 89.07% of the observed socioeconomic inequalities in overweight and obesity among Iranian adults respectively. Following SES, province of residence, physical activity, using hookah and smoking were the major contributors to the concentration of overweight and obesity among the rich. Conclusions: Overall, we found that overweight and obesity is concentrated among high SES people in the study population. . Accordingly, it seems that intersectional actions should be taken to control and prevent overweight and obesity among higher socioeconomic groups.

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Socioeconomic inequality of overweight and obesity of the elderly in Iran: Bushehr Elderly Health (BEH) Program

Cited by 15 publications

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Obesity: An Inevitable Consequence of Urbanization

Obesity: An Inevitable Consequence of Urbanization

Prevalence and risk factors of underweight, overweight and obesity among a geriatric population living in a high-altitude region of rural Uttarakhand, India

Socioeconomic - related inequalities in overweight and obesity: findings from the PERSIAN cohort study

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