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01-04-2013 | Original Article

Sex-stratified socio-economic gradients in physical inactivity, obesity, and diabetes: evidence of short-term changes in Argentina

Authors: Bruno Linetzky, Fernando De Maio, Daniel Ferrante, Jonatan Konfino, Carlos Boissonnet

Published in: International Journal of Public Health | Issue 2/2013

Abstract

Objectives

To evaluate how socio-economic gradients in NCDs and NCD-related risk factors change over time.

Methods

Secondary analysis of cross-sectional data from the 2005 and 2009 Argentine National Risk Factor Surveys (N = 41,392 and N = 34,732) was conducted. We analyzed inequalities in three risk factors (low physical activity, obesity, and diabetes) according to income and educational attainment. The analysis was based on sex-stratified and age-adjusted logistic regression.

Results

The overall prevalence of low physical activity, obesity, and diabetes increased from 2005 to 2009. Increases occurred in most of the income and education groups, but females with the lowest socio-economic status generally showed the highest increases. In 2005, differences in physical inactivity among women with different levels of education were not statistically significant. By 2009, women with low education (OR = 1.57, 95 % CI = 1.34–1.84) and medium education (OR = 1.18, 95 % CI = 1.06–1.32) were more likely than women with high education to be physically inactive.

Conclusion

Inequalities in physical inactivity, obesity, and diabetes have grown in Argentina over a short period of time.

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Title: Sex-stratified socio-economic gradients in physical inactivity, obesity, and diabetes: evidence of short-term changes in Argentina
Authors: Bruno Linetzky
Fernando De Maio
Daniel Ferrante
Jonatan Konfino
Carlos Boissonnet
Publication date: 01-04-2013
Publisher: SP Birkhäuser Verlag Basel
Published in: International Journal of Public Health / Issue 2/2013
Print ISSN: 1661-8556
Electronic ISSN: 1661-8564
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00038-012-0371-z

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Sex-stratified socio-economic gradients in physical inactivity, obesity, and diabetes: evidence of short-term changes in Argentina

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Methods

Results

Conclusion

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