Microsimulation projections of obesity interventions on cardiometabolic health disparities in the United States.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The aim of this study was to estimate long-term impacts of health education interventions on cardiometabolic health disparities.

Methods

The model simulates how health education implemented in the United States throughout 2019 to 2049 would lead to changes in adult BMI and consequent hypertension and type 2 diabetes. Health outcome changes by sex, racial/ethnic (non-Hispanic White, non-Hispanic Black, and Hispanic), and weight status (normal: 18.5 ≤ BMI < 25; overweight: 25 ≤ BMI < 30; and obesity: 30 ≤ BMI) subpopulations were compared under a scenario with and one without health education.

Results

By 2049, the intervention would reduce average BMI of women with obesity to 27.7 kg/m² (CI: 27.4-27.9), which would be 2.9 kg/m² lower than

SUBMITTER: Richardson AS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8711610 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature