Observational studyBMJ (Clinical research ed.)2018
Association between population mean and distribution of deviance in demographic surveys from 65 countries: cross sectional study.
Observational study in BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Depicting deterministic variables within directed acyclic graphs: an aid for identifying and interpreting causal effects involving derived variables and compositional data.American journal of epidemiology · 2025Article
- Genetic associations with temporal shifts in obesity and severe obesity during the obesity epidemic in Norway: A longitudinal population-based cohort (the HUNT Study).PLoS medicine · 2020Observational
- Determinants of the population health distribution: an illustration examining body mass index.International journal of epidemiology · 2020Article
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- Erratum issued
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7 authors at 5 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
objectivesTo examine whether conditions related to scarcity at the left side of the distribution (anaemia, severe chronic energy deficiency, and underweight) are as strongly related to population means as conditions of excess at the right side of the distribution (overweight and obesity).
designObservational study.
setting65 countries, with nationally representative cross sectional data from 1994 to 2014 obtained from the Demographic Health Surveys.
participantsNon-pregnant women aged 20-49. Sample of 65 countries and n=524 380 for analysis of BMI; sample of 44 countries and n=316 465 for analysis of haemoglobin.
main outcome measuresThe association between mean and prevalence of each category. For BMI, prevalence of severe chronic energy deficiency (SCED, BMI <16.0), underweight (BMI <18.5), overweight (BMI >25) and obese (BMI >30.) were measured; for haemoglobin, prevalence of anaemia (haemoglobin <12.0 g/dL) and severe anaemia (haemoglobin <8.0 g/dL) were examined.
resultsThere was a strong association between mean BMI and prevalence of overweight (r
conclusionsThe associations between population means and prevalence of conditions of scarcity such as low BMI and anaemia were substantially weaker than the associations of mean BMI with conditions of excesses such as overweight and obesity.
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