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Obesity trends by industry of employment in the United States, 2004 to 2011

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Obesity, April 2016
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Title
Obesity trends by industry of employment in the United States, 2004 to 2011
Published in
BMC Obesity, April 2016
DOI 10.1186/s40608-016-0100-x
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Chandra L. Jackson, Christina C. Wee, David A. Hurtado, Ichiro Kawachi

Abstract

Obesity is associated with increased morbidity, occupational injuries, and premature mortality. Obesity also disproportionately affects blacks and socioeconomically disadvantaged workers. However, few studies have evaluated national trends of obesity by employment industry overall and especially by race. To investigate national trends of obesity by employment industry overall and by race, we estimated the age-standardized obesity prevalence from 2004 to 2011. We used direct age-standardization with the 2000 US Census population as the standard among 136,923 adults in the US National Health Interview Survey. We also estimated prevalence ratios (PRs) for obesity in black women and men compared to their white counterparts for each employment industry using adjusted Poisson regression models with robust variance. Obesity prevalence increased for men and women over the study period across all employment industry categories, and the healthcare industry had the highest overall age-standardized prevalence (30 %). Black women had a significantly higher obesity prevalence than white women across all employment industry categories, ranging from 33 % (95 % confidence interval (CI): 1.16,1.52) in Professional/Management to 74 % in Education (95 % CI: 1.56,1.93). Obesity prevalence was higher among black than white men for Healthcare (PR = 1.39 [1.15,1.69]), Education (PR = 1.39 [1.17,1.67]), Public Administration (PR = 1.34 [1.20,1.49]), and Manufacturing (PR = 1.19 [1.11,1.27]). Differences in obesity prevalence by race were generally widest in professional/management occupations. Obesity trends varied substantially overall as well as within and between race-gender groups across employment industries. These findings demonstrate the need for further investigation of racial and sociocultural disparities in the work-obesity relationship to employ strategies designed to address these disparities while improving health among all US workers. Further research and interventions among workers in industries with an increasing or high prevalence of obesity should be prioritized.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 2 4%
Unknown 52 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Doctoral Student 7 13%
Researcher 5 9%
Student > Master 5 9%
Student > Bachelor 5 9%
Lecturer 3 6%
Other 10 19%
Unknown 19 35%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 9 17%
Social Sciences 8 15%
Nursing and Health Professions 6 11%
Environmental Science 2 4%
Arts and Humanities 2 4%
Other 8 15%
Unknown 19 35%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 16. 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 12 July 2016.
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#2,070,524
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#27
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Outputs of similar age from BMC Obesity
#6
of 16 outputs
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