ArticleJournal of epidemiology and community health2018
Secular change in the association between urbanisation and abdominal adiposity in China (1993-2011).
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- Intergenerational Changes in the Waist Circumference and Selected Associated Indicators among Children and Adolescents from Kraków (Poland), between 1983 and 2020.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Thirty-Year Urbanization Trajectories and Obesity in Modernizing China.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Urban sprawl and childhood obesity.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2021Article
- Urbanization in China is associated with pronounced perturbation of plasma metabolites.Metabolomics : Official journal of the Metabolomic Society · 2020Article
- Circulating Short-Chain Fatty Acids Are Positively Associated with Adiposity Measures in Chinese Adults.Nutrients · 2020Article
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backgroundLittle attention has been paid to how the association between urbanisation and abdominal adiposity changes over the course of economic development in low-income and middle-income countries.
methodsData came from the China Health and Nutrition Survey waves 1993-2011 (seven waves). A mixed linear model was used to investigate the association between community-level urbanisation with waist-to-height ratio (WHtR; an indicator of abdominal adiposity). We incorporated interaction terms between urbanisation and study waves to understand how the association changed over time. The analyses were stratified by age (children vs adults).
resultsAdult WHtR was positively associated with urbanisation in earlier waves but became inversely associated over time. More specifically, a 1 SD increase in the urbanisation index was associated with higher WHtR by 0.002 and 0.005 in waves 1993 and 1997, while it was associated with lower WHtR by 0.001 in 2011. Among child participants, the increase in WHtR over time was predominantly observed in more urbanised communities.
conclusionOur study suggests a shift in adult abdominal adiposity from more urbanised communities to less urbanised communities over a time of rapid economic development in China. Children living in more urbanised communities had higher increase in abdominal obesity with urbanisation over time relative to children living in less urbanised communities.
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