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dc.contributor.authorIbarra Sanchez, Ana Silvia
dc.contributor.authorAbelsen, Birgit
dc.contributor.authorChen, Gang
dc.contributor.authorWisløff, Torbjørn
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-16T09:36:10Z
dc.date.available2024-01-16T09:36:10Z
dc.date.issued2023-12-01
dc.description.abstractSocial differences in body mass index and health behaviors are a major public health challenge. The uneven distribution of unhealthy body mass index and of unhealthy behaviors such as smoking, physical inactivity, and harmful alcohol consumption has been shown to mediate social inequalities in chronic diseases. While differential exposures to these health variables have been investigated, the extent to which they vary over the lifetime in the same population and their relationship with level of education is not well understood. This study examines patterns of body mass index and multiple health behaviors (smoking, physical activity and alcohol consumption), and investigates their association with education level among adults living in Northern Norway. It presents findings from a longitudinal multiple correspondence analysis of the Tromsø Study. Longitudinal data from 8,906 adults aged 32– 87 in 2007–2008, with repeated measurements in 2015–2016 were retrieved from the survey’s sixth and seventh waves. The findings suggest that most in the study population remained in the same categories of body mass index and the three health behaviors at the follow-up, with a clear educational gradient in healthy patterns. That is, both healthy changes and maintained healthy categories were associated with the highest education levels. Estimating differential exposures to mediators of health inequalities could benefit policy priority setting for tackling inequalities in health.en_US
dc.identifier.citationIbarra Sanchez, Abelsen, Chen, Wisløff. Educational patterns of health behaviors and body mass index: A longitudinal multiple correspondence analysis of a middle-aged general population, 2007-2016. PLOS ONE. 2023;18(12):e0295302en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 2215246
dc.identifier.doi10.1371/journal.pone.0295302
dc.identifier.issn1932-6203
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/32505
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherPLOSen_US
dc.relation.journalPLOS ONE
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2023 The Author(s)en_US
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0en_US
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)en_US
dc.titleEducational patterns of health behaviors and body mass index: A longitudinal multiple correspondence analysis of a middle-aged general population, 2007-2016en_US
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typeTidsskriftartikkelen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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