The nutrition transition in Mexico 1988-2016: the role of wealth in the social patterning of obesity by education.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The present study investigates whether the reversal of the social gradient in obesity, defined as a cross-over to higher obesity prevalence among groups with lower education level, has occurred among men and women in urban and rural areas of Mexico.

Design

Cross-sectional series of nationally representative surveys (1988, 1999, 2006, 2012 and 2016). The association between education and obesity was investigated over the period 1988-2016. Effect modification of the education-obesity association by household wealth was tested.

Setting

Mexico.

Subjects

Women (n 54 816) and men (n 20 589) aged 20-49 years.

Results

In both urban and rural areas, the association between education and obesity in women varied by level of household wealth in the earlier

SUBMITTER: Perez-Ferrer C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10260958 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature