Sex-specific role of education on the associations of socioeconomic status indicators with obesity risk: A population-based study in South Korea

Woojin Chung, Jaeyeun Kim, Seung-ji Lim and Sunmi Lee

PLOS ONE, 2018, vol. 13, issue 1, 1-16

Abstract: Background: No study of obesity risk for people in developed countries has conducted a multi-dimensional analysis of the association of socioeconomic status with obesity. In this paper, we investigated if education functions as either a confounder or an effect modifier in the association of another socioeconomic status indicator with obesity. Methods: This cross-sectional study analyzed data of an adult population sample (10,905 men and 14,580 women) from the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (2010–2014). The study performed multivariate logistic regression analyses for three education levels and four indicators of socioeconomic status (i.e., marital status, residential area, occupation, and income). Results: The overall prevalence of obesity was 38.1% in men and 29.1% in women (p

Date: 2018
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