TY - JOUR
T1 - Association of individual network social capital with abdominal adiposity, overweight and obesity
AU - Moore, Spencer
AU - Daniel, Mark
AU - Paquet, Catherine
AU - Dubé, Laurette
AU - Gauvin, Lise
N1 - Funding Information:
At the time of this research, S.M. held postdoctoral fellowships from the Fonds de la Recherche en Santédu Québec (FRSQ) and the Strategic Training Program in Public and Population Health research of Québec, a partnership of the Institute of Population and Public Health and the Institute of Health Services and Policy Research of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and the Québec Population Health Research Network. M.D. was supported through a Canada Research Chair (Population Health) awarded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. C.P. held a FRSQ postdoctoral fellowship. L.D. holds a James McGill Chair in Consumer and Lifestyle Psychology and Marketing. L.G. holds a CIHR Centre de Recherche en Prevention de l’Obésité Applied Public Health Chair in Neighborhoods, Lifestyle, and Healthy Body Weight.
Funding Information:
Data collection was supported by a team grant from the FRSQ (grant # 8394, L.D.), the Canada Research Chairs program (M.D.), Canada Foundation for Innovation (grant #201252, M.D.), and CIHR (grant # 200203 MOP 57805, L.G.).
PY - 2009/3
Y1 - 2009/3
N2 - BackgroundLimited research has examined the association of individual trust, participation and social capital with obesity using objective measures of waist circumference (WC), body mass index (BMI) and network measures of social capital.MethodsData were obtained from a representative sample of Montreal residents. Participants completed questionnaires that included a position generator for collecting network social capital data. Measures of WC, height and weight were collected by registered nurses. To estimate associations with cardiometabolic risk, data on WC for individuals with BMI between 18.5 and 34.9 were extracted for analysis (n = 291). Using a proportional odds model with clustered robust standard errors, we evaluated the association of three different measures of individual social capital with elevated and substantially elevated WC and overweight and obesity categories of BMI. These measures were then evaluated in their associations with elevated WC and BMI, adjusting for socio-demographic and behavioral covariates.ResultsNetwork social capital was inversely associated with the likelihood of being in an elevated WC risk category (odds ratio (OR) = 0.81, 95 confidence intervals (CI: 0.69, 0.96) and higher BMI category (OR = 0.81, 95 CI: 0.71, 0.92).ConclusionHigher individual network social capital is associated with a lower likelihood of elevated WC risk and overweight and obesity.
AB - BackgroundLimited research has examined the association of individual trust, participation and social capital with obesity using objective measures of waist circumference (WC), body mass index (BMI) and network measures of social capital.MethodsData were obtained from a representative sample of Montreal residents. Participants completed questionnaires that included a position generator for collecting network social capital data. Measures of WC, height and weight were collected by registered nurses. To estimate associations with cardiometabolic risk, data on WC for individuals with BMI between 18.5 and 34.9 were extracted for analysis (n = 291). Using a proportional odds model with clustered robust standard errors, we evaluated the association of three different measures of individual social capital with elevated and substantially elevated WC and overweight and obesity categories of BMI. These measures were then evaluated in their associations with elevated WC and BMI, adjusting for socio-demographic and behavioral covariates.ResultsNetwork social capital was inversely associated with the likelihood of being in an elevated WC risk category (odds ratio (OR) = 0.81, 95 confidence intervals (CI: 0.69, 0.96) and higher BMI category (OR = 0.81, 95 CI: 0.71, 0.92).ConclusionHigher individual network social capital is associated with a lower likelihood of elevated WC risk and overweight and obesity.
KW - Obesity
KW - Social determinants
KW - Socioeconomics factors
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U2 - 10.1093/pubmed/fdn104
DO - 10.1093/pubmed/fdn104
M3 - Article
C2 - 19153095
AN - SCOPUS:66649108647
SN - 1741-3842
VL - 31
SP - 175
EP - 183
JO - Journal of Public Health
JF - Journal of Public Health
IS - 1
ER -