Journal article
Trends in body mass index according to educational attainment for urban Australian adults between 1980 and 2007
E Gearon, K Backholer, C Stevenson, DJ Magliano, C Keating, K Ball, A Beauchamp, A Peeters
International Journal of Obesity | Published : 2015
DOI: 10.1038/ijo.2015.27
Abstract
Background: We have previously demonstrated that between the years 1980 and 2000, the mean body mass index (BMI) of the urban Australian population increased, with greater increases observed with increasing BMI. The current study aimed to quantify trends over time in BMI according to level of education between 1980 and 2007. Methods: We compared data from the 1980, 1983 and 1989 National Heart Foundation Risk Factor Prevalence Studies, 1995 National Nutrition Survey, 2000 Australian Diabetes, Obesity and Lifestyle Study and the 2007 National Health Survey. For survey comparability, analyses were restricted to urban Australian residents aged 25-64 years. BMI was calculated from measured heigh..
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Awarded by State Government of Victoria
Funding Acknowledgements
We would like to acknowledge the insight the RIO advisory committee has provided to this project. We wish to thank the National Heart Foundation's Risk Factor Prevalence Study Committee and the Australian Social Science Data Archive for access to the Risk Factor Prevalence Studies, the Australian Bureau of Statistics for access to the National Nutrition Survey and National Health Survey, and the AusDiab Steering Committee for access to the AusDiab study. This work was supported by an Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage grant (LP120100418) and in part by the Victorian Government's Operational Infrastructure Support (OIS) Program. EG and K Backholer were also supported by the ARC Linkage grant (LP120100418) and an Australian National Preventive Health Agency grant (188PEE2011), EG was supported by an Australian Postgraduate Award, KB was supported by a Post doctoral Research Fellowship from the National Heart Foundation of Australia (PH 12M6824), AP was supported by a National Health and Medical Research Council Career Development Fellowship (1045456) and the Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute, CS was supported by an ARC Discovery Project Grant (DP120103277) and K Ball was supported by a NHMRC Principal Research Fellowship, ID 1042442.