Shifting educational gradients in body mass index trajectories of Indonesians: an age period cohort analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Globally, the number of obese adults has increased rapidly in many developing countries. The links between increased educational attainment and lower risks of overweight/obesity have been studied in a number of high-income contexts. However, educational attainment can have a different association with obesity at different levels of economic development and different stages of the nutritional transition, and these associations may vary by period and cohort. This study aims to provide evidence on the shifting of educational gradients in overweight/obesity in Indonesia, a low middle income country.

Methods

Using five waves of Indonesian Family Life Survey (IFLS), this study examines the Body Mass Index (BMI) trajectories of 14,810 individuals from 1993 to 2014. This

SUBMITTER: Liwin LK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9115941 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature