Correspondence between overweight and socioeconomic and demographic indicators in the adult Brazilian population

• Main Authors: Vladimir Schuindt da Silva, Israel Souza, Diego Augusto Santos Silva, Edio Luiz Petroski, Maria de Jesus Mendes da Fonseca
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Associação Brasileira de Pós-Graduação em Saúde Coletiva 2015-06-01
• Series: Revista Brasileira de Epidemiologia
• Subjects: Adulto; Estudos transversais; Epidemiologia; Sobrepeso; Fatores socioeconômicos; Segurança alimentar e nutricional
• Online Access: http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-790X2015000200476&lng=en&tlng=en

<sec><title>OBJECTIVE:</title><p> To verify the correlation between overweight and socioeconomic and demographic indicators among Brazilian adults, using data from the Brazilian Household Budget Survey from 2008/2009.</p></sec><sec><title>METHODS:</title><p> We analyzed the joint relationships between overweight and socioeconomic and demographic indicators in the Brazilian adult population (99,532,672 individuals), through the multiple correspondence analysis technique.</p></sec><sec><title>RESULTS:</title><p> The featured profile of the Brazilian adult population with regard to overweight was correlated with ages from 30 years of the most developed and economically social geographic regions of Brazil; however between genders, the correlation was in the opposite direction in the variables income, education, and subjective issues about life conditions related to food and nutrition security.</p></sec><sec><title>CONCLUSION:</title><p> By the joint relationship between overweight and selected demographic and socioeconomic indicators, the urgency of the development of strategies and/or preventive public health programs of health problems with overweight in the Brazilian adult population is suggested.</p></sec>