The obesity epidemic in the United States--gender, age, socioeconomic, racial/ethnic, and geographic characteristics: a systematic review and meta-regression analysis.

By Youfa Wang, M. Beydoun. Epidemiologic Reviews, 2007

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Subfields: General Health Professions, Pharmacy, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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Will All Americans Become Overweight or Obese? Estimating the Progression and Cost of the US Obesity Epidemic (2008, methodology): “Previous analyses show little increase in the prevalence of obesity and overweight between NHANES I and II, but prevalence has been steadily increasing since NHANES II (1,3,23).”
Loneliness and Social Isolation as Risk Factors for Mortality (2015, background): “The present obesity epidemic (Wang & Beydoun, 2007) had been predicted.”
Screening for Obesity in Children and Adolescents: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement (2017, background): “Interventions were deemed comprehensive if they included all of the following elements: (1) counseling for weight loss or healthy diet; (2) counseling for physical activity or a physical activity program; and (3) instruction in and support for the use of behavioral management techniques to help make”
The global childhood obesity epidemic and the association between socio-economic status and childhood obesity (2012, methodology): “We used the NHANES III (1988 – 1994) and NHANES 1999 – 2004 data.”
The Misunderstood Schema of the Strong Black Woman: Exploring Its Mental Health Consequences and Coping Responses Among African American Women (2020, background): “Although the SBW schema is rooted in African American women’s strength and resilience, it is linked to adverse mental and physical health outcomes such as cardiovascular disease (e.g., Harrington, Crowther, & Shipherd, 2010; Wang & Beydoun, 2007).”
“I Had To Be Strong” (2016, background): “…proposed that the internalization of strength, through mechanisms such as emotional suppression and disordered eating, may partly contribute to African American women’s disproportionate rates of cardiovascular disease (Thom et al., 2006) and obesity (Wang & Beydoun, 2007; Woods-Giscombé, 2010).”
Obesity and socioeconomic status in developing countries: a systematic review (2012, background): “In developed countries, obesity is widely considered a condition that affects people of lower socioeconomic status (SES) more so than those of higher SES (1).”