Obesity risk in rural, urban and rural-to-urban migrants: prospective results of the PERU MIGRANT study

• Published in: International Journal of Obesity Vol. 40; no. 1; pp. 181 - 185
• Main Authors: Carrillo-Larco, R M, Bernabé-Ortiz, A, Pillay, T D, Gilman, R H, Sanchez, J F, Poterico, J A, Quispe, R, Smeeth, L, Miranda, J J
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 01.01.2016; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: 692/308/174; 692/499; 692/699/2743/393; 692/700/1750; Analysis; Body Mass Index; Cardiovascular Diseases - epidemiology; Cardiovascular Diseases - prevention & control; Developing countries; Educational Status; Epidemiology; Female; Follow-Up Studies; Health aspects; Health Priorities; Health Promotion and Disease Prevention; Humans; Influence; Internal Medicine; LDCs; Male; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Metabolic Diseases; Middle Aged; Migrants; Obesity; Obesity - complications; Obesity - epidemiology; Obesity - prevention & control; Obesity, Abdominal - complications; Obesity, Abdominal - epidemiology; Original; original-article; Peru - epidemiology; Poisson Distribution; Prevalence; Prospective Studies; Public Health; Risk Factors; Rural areas; Rural Population - trends; Rural urban migration; Socioeconomic Factors; Transients and Migrants - statistics & numerical data; Urban areas; Urban Population - trends; Urbanization; Urbanization - trends; Peru; United Kingdom; United Kingdom > UK; ISE, Peru

Background: Although migration and urbanization have been linked with higher obesity rates, especially in low-resource settings, prospective information about the magnitude of these effects is lacking. We estimated the risk of obesity and central obesity among rural subjects, rural-to-urban migrants...