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Psychosocial factors and obesity in 17 high-, middle- and low-income countries: the Prospective Urban Rural Epidemiologic study

Rosengren A 1 , Teo K 2 , Rangarajan S 2 , Kabali C 2 , Khumalo I 3 , Kutty VR 4 Show all authors , Gupta R 5 , Yusuf R 6 , Iqbal R 7 , Ismail N 8 , Altuntas Y 9 , Kelishadi R 10 , Diaz R 11 , Avezum A 12 , Chifamba J 13 , Zatonska K 14 , Wei L 15 , Liao X 16 , Lopez-Jaramillo P 17 , Yusufali A 18 , Seron P 19 , Lear SA 20 , Yusuf S 2

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  • 1 Department of Molecular and Clinical Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Göteborg, Sweden
  • 2 Population Health Research Institute, McMaster University and Hamilton Health Sciences, Hamilton, ON, Canada
  • 3 North-West University, Optentia Research Programme, Faculty of Humanities, Vanderbilpark, South Africa
  • 4 Achutha Menon Centre for Health Science Studies, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Trivandrum, Kerala, India
  • 5 Fortis Escorts Hospital, JLN Marg, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
  • 6 Independent University Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh
  • 7 Department of Community Health Sciences and Medicine, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan
  • 8 Department of Community Health, Universiti Kebangsaan, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • 9 SB Pediatric Endocrinology and Metabolism, Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey
  • 10 Isfahan Cardiovascular Research Center, Cardiovascular Research Institute, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran
  • 11 Estudios Clinicos Latinoamerica ECLA, Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina
  • 12 Dante Pazzanese Institute of cardiology, Sao Paulo, Brazil
  • 13 Physiology Department, University of Zimbabwe, College of Health Sciences, Harare, Zimbabwe
  • 14 Department of Social Medicine, Medical University of Wrocław, Wrocław, Poland
  • 15 State Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Disease, Fuwai Hospital, National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
  • 16 Sichuan University West China Hospital, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China
  • 17 Fundacion Oftalmologica de Santander (FOSCAL) and Medical School, Universidad de Santander (UDES), Santander, Colombia
  • 18 Dubai Health Authority, Dubai, UAE
  • 19 Universidad de La Frontera, Temuco, Chile
  • 20 Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University and Division of Cardiology, Providence Health Care, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Int J Obes (Lond), 2015 Aug;39(8):1217-23.
PMID: 25869608 DOI: 10.1038/ijo.2015.48

Abstract

Psychosocial stress has been proposed to contribute to obesity, particularly abdominal, or central obesity, through chronic activation of the neuroendocrine systems. However, these putative relationships are complex and dependent on country and cultural context. We investigated the association between psychosocial factors and general and abdominal obesity in the Prospective Urban Rural Epidemiologic study.

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