Obesity-Related Health Lifestyles of Late-Middle Age Black Americans: The Jackson Heart Study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

This article examines the obesity-related health lifestyle practices of a late-middle age cohort of socioeconomically diverse Black Americans. Black people have the highest prevalence of obesity of any racial group in the U.S. Consequently, the obesity-related health lifestyles of this population is an important topic of investigation, including those in late-middle age for whom there is little data.

Methods

This study employs latent class analysis (LCA) and multinomial logit models to investigate dietary habits, levels of exercise, alcohol use, and smoking. The analysis sample is from the first examination of the Jackson Heart Study (2000‒2004) analyzed in 2021 using LCA. The sample consists of 739 Black men and 1,351 women between the ages of 50 and 64 years.<

SUBMITTER: Cockerham WC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9219285 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature