The independent effect of body mass index on health-related quality of life among racial and ethnic subgroups
| Autor: | William Dale, S. P. Bilir, Patricia Rush, Deborah L. Burnet, Megan Huisingh-Scheetz |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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Male Gerontology medicine.medical_specialty Psychological intervention Ethnic group White People Body Mass Index Interviews as Topic Quality of life Bayesian multivariate linear regression Ethnicity Humans Medicine Obesity Aged Chicago business.industry Public health Confounding Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Hispanic or Latino Middle Aged medicine.disease Health Surveys humanities Black or African American Cross-Sectional Studies Quality of Life Female business Body mass index |
| Zdroj: | Quality of Life Research. 22:1565-1575 |
| ISSN: | 1573-2649 0962-9343 |
| Popis: | To evaluate the impact of race/ethnicity on the relationship between body mass index (BMI) and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) among blacks, Hispanics, and whites. We used the Sinai Urban Health Institute’s Improving Community Health Survey dataset to measure physical and mental HRQOL using the Physical Component Score (PCS-12) and the Mental Component Score (MCS-12) of the Short Form-12. Multivariate linear regression models were applied to the overall sample and in models stratified by race/ethnicity to evaluate the effects of BMI on physical and mental HRQOL outcome variables while controlling for confounders. Considering physical HRQOL, increasing BMI was independently associated with worse PCS-12 (β = −0.22, p value |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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