Key result
Male gender was associated with a significantly higher likelihood of smoking (OR 2.59) compared to female gender among overweight and obese adults in China.
Why the study?
Significant interaction exists between obesity and health risk behaviors, which may cause serious disease consequences and substantial disease burden.
Cross-Sectional (n=2,650)
Odds Ratio: 2.59 (95% CI 2.36–2.84)
Demographic and socioeconomic factors such as gender, education, and family income significantly influence health risk behaviors in overweight and obese individuals in China, highlighting targets for intervention.
Obesity may interact with risk behaviors to heighten disease burden; hypothesis-generating and should not yet change practice.
Background: Significant interaction between obesity and health risk behaviors existed, which may cause serious disease consequences, resulting in great disease burden. Methods: A quantitative analysis using R software (3.5.2) presents the evaluation of 2650 responses (including 747 overweight and 254 obesity), Pearson’s chi-square test was used to compare the distribution characteristics of health risk behaviors in different groups, univariate and multinomial logistic regression mode were further used to explore significant factors of health risk behaviors. Results: Smoking, alcohol consuming, physical inactivity, poor sleep and skipping medical checkups were prevalent among those overweight and obesity in China, significant correlations existed between health risk behaviors. Gender, education, SRPH, SRMH and family income are significant factors affecting health risk behaviors in obese people. Conclusions: The findings of this paper suggested that interventions on health risk behaviors of obese people should be strengthened, so as to reduce the disease burden caused by obesity more effectively.
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Guo et al. (2023) conducted a cross-sectional in Overweight and obesity (n=2,650). Male gender vs. Female gender was evaluated on Smoking behavior (OR 2.59, 95% CI 2.36-2.84). Male gender was associated with a significantly higher likelihood of smoking (OR 2.59) compared to female gender among overweight and obese adults in China.
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