Preventive medicine
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Preventive medicine · Oct 2014
Lifecourse socioeconomic position and 16 year body mass index trajectories: differences by race and sex.
The aim of this study is to evaluate the association between lifecourse socioeconomic position (SEP) and changes in body mass index (BMI), and assess disparities in these associations across racial/ethnic groups. ⋯ Our study demonstrates that lifecourse SEP may influence adult BMI differently within different racial and sex groups.
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Preventive medicine · Oct 2014
Comparative StudySelf-rated health and mortality in a prospective Chinese elderly cohort study in Hong Kong.
In the West, self-rated health reliably predicts death, but conceptualizations of health and cause-composition of mortality may be contextually specific. Little is known as to how self-rated health predicts death in non-Western settings. ⋯ Age-comparative self-rated health predicted death in older people from a non-Western setting although the association was less marked than in Western settings.
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Preventive medicine · Oct 2014
Comparative StudyUnderstanding occupational sitting: prevalence, correlates and moderating effects in Australian employees.
To (1) compare occupational sitting between different socio-demographic, health-related, work-related and psychosocial categories, (2) identity socio-demographic, health-related, work-related and psychosocial correlates of occupational sitting, and (3) examine the moderating effect of work-related factors in the relation between correlates and occupational sitting. ⋯ Most important contributors to occupational sitting were work-related and socio-demographic correlates. More research is needed to confirm present results.
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Preventive medicine · Oct 2014
Comparative StudyOverweight and obesity among low-income women in rural West Virginia and urban Los Angeles County.
We described the prevalence of overweight and obesity among low-income women in rural West Virginia (WV) and urban Los Angeles County (LA County). Both communities participated in the national Communities Putting Prevention to Work program during 2010-2012. In each community, we completed health assessments on adult women recruited from public-sector clinics serving low-income populations. ⋯ In LA County, for example, African American and Hispanic women were 1.4 times (95% CI=1.12, 1.81) more likely than white women to be overweight and obese. Collectively, these subpopulation health data served as an important guide for further planning of obesity prevention efforts in both communities. These efforts became a part of the subsequent Community Transformation Grants portfolio.
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Preventive medicine · Oct 2014
Smokers' physical activity and weight gain one year after a successful versus unsuccessful quit attempt.
To examine whether smokers' physical activity is related to weight change following a quit attempt. ⋯ Physical activity is associated with an attenuation of the weight gain that often occurs after quitting smoking.