Heavy Smoking Is More Strongly Associated with General Unhealthy Lifestyle than Obesity and Underweight.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Smoking and obesity are major causes of non-communicable diseases. We investigated the associations of heavy smoking, obesity, and underweight with general lifestyle to infer which of these risk groups has the most unfavourable lifestyle.

Methods

We used data from the population-based cross-sectional Swiss Health Survey (5 rounds 1992-2012), comprising 85,575 individuals aged≥18 years. Height, weight, smoking, diet, alcohol intake and physical activity were self-reported. Multinomial logistic regression was performed to analyse differences in lifestyle between the combinations of body mass index (BMI) category and smoking status.

Results

Compared to normal-weight never smokers (reference), individuals who were normal-weight, obese, or underweight and smoked

SUBMITTER: Lohse T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4765891 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature