{"id":1872,"date":"2018-01-23T14:33:35","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T13:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swissmig.wordpress.com\/?p=1872"},"modified":"2018-01-23T14:33:35","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T13:33:35","slug":"prevalence-of-overweight-and-obesity-among-migrants-in-switzerland-association-with-country-of-origin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/?p=1872","title":{"rendered":"Prevalence of overweight and obesity among migrants in Switzerland: association with country of origin"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Author(s) : Pedro Marques-Vidal, Peter Vollenweider, G\u00e9rard Waeber, Fred Paccaud<\/h3>\n<h3>Source : <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1017\/S1368980011000103\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1017\/S1368980011000103<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Abstract: <\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Migrants tend to present higher overweight and obesity levels, but whether this relationship applies to all nationalities has seldom been studied. The present study aimed to assess the prevalence of overweight and obesity according to nationality in adults.<\/p>\n<p>Five-year nationwide interview surveys (Swiss Health Surveys \u2013 SHS) from 1992 to 2007 (<span class=\"italic\">n<\/span> 63 766) and a local examination survey (CoLaus Study in Lausanne 2004\u20132006, <span class=\"italic\">n<\/span> 6743).<\/p>\n<p>Participants were separated into Swiss, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish nationals, those from the former Republic of Yugoslavia and from other European and other countries. Compared with Swiss nationals, German and French nationals presented a lower prevalence of overweight and obesity, whereas nationals from Italy, Spain, Portugal and the former Republic of Yugoslavia presented higher levels.<\/p>\n<p>Overweight and obesity are unevenly distributed among migrants in Switzerland. Migrants from Southern Europe and from the former Republic of Yugoslavia present higher prevalence rates. This suggests that preventive messages should be tailored to these specific populations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author(s) : Pedro Marques-Vidal, Peter Vollenweider, G\u00e9rard Waeber, Fred Paccaud&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[256,7,57,92,9,192,127,473,122,442,143],"class_list":["post-1872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","tag-256","tag-article","tag-comparative-analysis","tag-country-of-origin","tag-english-language","tag-health-behavior","tag-health-policy","tag-medical-screening","tag-migrants","tag-preventive-medicine","tag-statistical-data"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}