Epidemiology

Social variables not affected by increasing BMI in African American women

Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, October 4th, 2004

Increased body mass index may cause African American women some worry about their physical health and general well-being, but it doesn't impact social factors like education, job or marital status, and household income, a Johns Hopkins study suggests.

M.R. Patt and associates divided 496 black women into categories by body mass index (BMI) and then assessed sociodemographic, behavioral, and psychological factors within each category in an effort "to better understand obesity and overweight among urban African American women."

The women "were recruited for cardiovascular risk factor screening from 20 urban African American churches. Study participants...

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