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Modifying effects of education on the association between lifestyle behaviors and the risk of obesity: evidence from South Korea

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Public Health, October 2016
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Title
Modifying effects of education on the association between lifestyle behaviors and the risk of obesity: evidence from South Korea
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BMC Public Health, October 2016
DOI 10.1186/s12889-016-3776-4
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Woojin Chung, Sunmi Lee, Seung-ji Lim, Jaeyeun Kim

Abstract

No previous study has explored the interactions between education and lifestyle in relation to obesity. This study hypothesized that education may be obesogenic through its interplay with lifestyle behaviors. Data for a nationally representative sample (6937 men and 9333 women) from the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (2010-2012) were analyzed. Multivariate logistic regressions were performed for three education levels and six lifestyle behaviors, each of which comprised two groups. Interactions between education and lifestyle behaviors in relation to obesity were observed for all lifestyle behaviors in women (p for interaction <0.001) and for three lifestyle behaviors in men. Education appeared obesogenic for three groups of lifestyle behaviors in men (p for trend <0.05), but was protective against obesity for 11 groups in women. Each one-unit increase in education level in men increased the odds of obesity by 1.29-fold among under-reported energy intake groups (95 % confidence interval: 1.16, 1.44). Education may be a risk factor for obesity through its interplay with lifestyle behaviors. Further research is required to examine these findings in different socio-cultural settings.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 29 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 6 21%
Student > Master 4 14%
Student > Postgraduate 3 10%
Student > Ph. D. Student 3 10%
Lecturer 2 7%
Other 4 14%
Unknown 7 24%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 7 24%
Medicine and Dentistry 7 24%
Psychology 2 7%
Social Sciences 2 7%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 1 3%
Other 2 7%
Unknown 8 28%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 13 November 2016.
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#13,135,229
of 22,899,952 outputs
Outputs from BMC Public Health
#9,179
of 14,930 outputs
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#159,908
of 315,913 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Public Health
#137
of 231 outputs
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