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Overweight and abdominal obesity in women of childbearing age of Russian, Somali and Kurdish origin and the general Finnish population.
- Source :
- Journal of Public Health; Jun2018, Vol. 40 Issue 2, p262-270, 9p
- Publication Year :
- 2018
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Abstract
- Background Migrant background and higher parity may increase the risk of being overweight. We compared the prevalence of overweight (body mass index ≥25 kg/m<superscript>2</superscript>) and abdominal obesity (waist-to-height ratio ≥0.5) between non-pregnant migrant and Finnish women aged 18–45 years. Methods The participants were 165 Russian, 164 Somali and 179 Kurdish origin women from the cross-sectional Migrant Health and Wellbeing study. The reference group included 388 women from the general Finnish population. Body anthropometrics were measured. The main statistical methods were logistic regression adjusted for sociodemographic and reproductive variables. Results The unadjusted prevalence of overweight and obesity, respectively, were higher among Somali (32.9%, 30.9%, P < 0.001) and Kurdish women (41.1%, 19.5%, P < 0.001) than among Finnish women (19.9%, 9.8%). The adjusted odds ratios (95% CI) for overweight (including obesity) were 0.54 (0.33; 0.89) for Russian, 2.89 (1.66; 5.03) for Somali and 2.56 (1.64; 4.00) for Kurdish women compared with Finnish women. Kurdish women had 2.96-fold (1.75; 5.00) adjusted odds ratio for abdominal obesity compared with Finnish women. Being parous was associated with overweight and abdominal obesity among Kurdish women. Conclusions Overweight and obesity were very common among Somali and Kurdish origin women. Information on diet and physical activity in these groups is needed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- OBESITY risk factors
ANTHROPOMETRY
COMPARATIVE studies
CONFIDENCE intervals
ETHNIC groups
IMMIGRANTS
INTERVIEWING
OBESITY
PROBABILITY theory
QUESTIONNAIRES
STATISTICAL sampling
SELF-evaluation
LOGISTIC regression analysis
SECONDARY analysis
SOCIOECONOMIC factors
CROSS-sectional method
PARITY (Obstetrics)
DATA analysis software
DESCRIPTIVE statistics
ABDOMINAL adipose tissue
ODDS ratio
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 17413842
- Volume :
- 40
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Public Health
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 131148607
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdx053