Title |
Abdominal vs. overall obesity among women in a nutrition transition context: geographic and socio-economic patterns of abdominal-only obesity in Tunisia
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Published in |
Population Health Metrics, January 2015
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DOI | 10.1186/s12963-015-0035-3 |
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Authors |
Pierre Traissac, Rebecca Pradeilles, Jalila El Ati, Hajer Aounallah-Skhiri, Sabrina Eymard-Duvernay, Agnès Gartner, Chiraz Béji, Souha Bougatef, Yves Martin-Prével, Patrick Kolsteren, Francis Delpeuch, Habiba Ben Romdhane, Bernard Maire |
Abstract |
Most assessments of the burden of obesity in nutrition transition contexts rely on body mass index (BMI) only, even though abdominal adiposity might be specifically predictive of adverse health outcomes. In Tunisia, a typical country of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, where the burden of obesity is especially high among women, we compared female abdominal vs. overall obesity and its geographic and socio-economic cofactors, both at population and within-subject levels. |
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France | 1 | 100% |
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Members of the public | 1 | 100% |
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France | 1 | 1% |
Unknown | 91 | 99% |
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Student > Bachelor | 16 | 17% |
Researcher | 12 | 13% |
Student > Master | 10 | 11% |
Student > Doctoral Student | 8 | 9% |
Student > Ph. D. Student | 6 | 7% |
Other | 12 | 13% |
Unknown | 28 | 30% |
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Medicine and Dentistry | 17 | 18% |
Nursing and Health Professions | 16 | 17% |
Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 5 | 5% |
Psychology | 4 | 4% |
Social Sciences | 4 | 4% |
Other | 12 | 13% |
Unknown | 34 | 37% |