PMID- 23478160
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20131017
LR  - 20130422
IS  - 1872-6976 (Electronic)
IS  - 0167-4943 (Linking)
VI  - 57
IP  - 1
DP  - 2013 Jul-Aug
TI  - Relationship between employment status and obesity in a Korean elderly 
      population, based on the 2007-2009 Korean National Health and Nutrition 
      Examination Survey (KNHANES).
PG  - 54-9
LID - S0167-4943(13)00027-7 [pii]
LID - 10.1016/j.archger.2013.02.004 [doi]
AB  - We investigated the relationship between employment status and obesity prevalence 
      in an elderly Korean, using a nationally representative sample. This 
      cross-sectional study included 2991 participants (1396 men and 1595 women) aged 
      60 years or older. Employment status was categorized into full-time employees, 
      part-time employees, and an unemployed group, based on a self-reported 
      questionnaire. According to Asia Pacific regional guidelines from the World 
      Health Organization (WHO) and International Obesity Task Force (IOTF), obesity 
      was defined as a body mass index (BMI)>/=25kg/m(2). Mean BMI in women was highest 
      in the unemployed group, whereas the mean BMI in men did not differ significantly 
      between employment groups. The obesity prevalence in full-time employees, 
      part-time employees, and the unemployed group were 25.1%, 25.5%, and 27.1% in men 
      and 36.0%, 37.9%, and 40.4% in women, respectively. Compared to the full-time 
      employees, the odds ratios (ORs) (95% confidence intervals) for obesity were 
      1.172 (0.765-1.795) and 1.164 (0.843-1.609) in the part-time employees, and 1.451 
      (1.054-1.999) and 1.399 (1.090-1.795) in the unemployed group, for men and women, 
      respectively, after adjusting for age, lifestyle factors (physical activity, 
      alcohol consumption, smoking status, daily calorie intake), socioeconomic factors 
      (education level and household income), and inflammatory factor (white blood cell 
      (WBC) counts). Unemployment appears to be significantly related to a higher 
      prevalence risk of obesity in an elderly Korean population, regardless of age, 
      lifestyle, socioeconomic factors, and inflammatory factor.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2013 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
FAU - Kang, Hee-Taik
AU  - Kang HT
AD  - Department of Family Medicine, Gangnam Severance Hospital, Yonsei University 
      College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
FAU - Lee, Hye-Ree
AU  - Lee HR
FAU - Lee, Yong-Jae
AU  - Lee YJ
FAU - Linton, John A
AU  - Linton JA
FAU - Shim, Jae-Yong
AU  - Shim JY
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20130307
PL  - Netherlands
TA  - Arch Gerontol Geriatr
JT  - Archives of gerontology and geriatrics
JID - 8214379
SB  - IM
MH  - Aged
MH  - Body Mass Index
MH  - *Employment
MH  - Female
MH  - Health Behavior
MH  - Health Surveys
MH  - Humans
MH  - Life Style
MH  - Male
MH  - Middle Aged
MH  - *Nutrition Surveys
MH  - Obesity/*epidemiology
MH  - Prevalence
MH  - Republic of Korea/epidemiology
MH  - Socioeconomic Factors
EDAT- 2013/03/13 06:00
MHDA- 2013/10/18 06:00
CRDT- 2013/03/13 06:00
PHST- 2012/09/03 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2013/02/13 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2013/03/13 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2013/03/13 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2013/10/18 06:00 [medline]
AID - S0167-4943(13)00027-7 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.archger.2013.02.004 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Arch Gerontol Geriatr. 2013 Jul-Aug;57(1):54-9. doi: 
      10.1016/j.archger.2013.02.004. Epub 2013 Mar 7.