caa a22 4500 606221786 CHVBK 20210128101130.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s00038-015-0721-8 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s00038-015-0721-8 The influence of area-level education on body mass index, waist circumference and obesity according to gender [Elektronische Daten] [Antonio Boing, S. Subramanian] Objectives: The aim of this study was to analyze the association between area-level education and body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC) and obesity controlling for individual demographic and socioeconomic characteristics. Methods: A cross-sectional population-based study was carried out with 1720 adults aged 20-59 in southern Brazil. We used multilevel modeling techniques to test whether area-level education was associated with BMI, WC and obesity regardless of individual-level characteristics. Results: We observed a significant between-groups variance for both BMI and WC. Among women, area-level education explained 27.6 and 30.0% of the between-groups variance of BMI and WC, respectively. In the fully adjusted model, the WC was 4.67cm higher (p<0.05) and the BMI was 1.12kg/m2 higher (p<0.05) in the women residents of low education neighborhoods compared to the residents of high education areas. In the same group, the chance of central obesity and general obesity was, respectively, 2.05 (IC95% 1.19-3.52) and 1.85 (IC95% 1.04-3.29) times higher. Conclusions: The findings suggest that neighborhood characteristics play an important role in the distribution of obesity and must be addressed by policy makers. Swiss School of Public Health, 2015 Body mass index nationallicence Waist circumference nationallicence Obesity nationallicence Education nationallicence Socioeconomic factors nationallicence Multilevel analysis nationallicence Boing Antonio Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 02115, Boston, USA aut Subramanian S. Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 02115, Boston, USA aut International Journal of Public Health Springer Basel 60/6(2015-09-01), 727-736 1661-8556 60:6<727 2015 60 38 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00038-015-0721-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00038-015-0721-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Boing Antonio Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 02115, Boston, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Subramanian S. Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 02115, Boston, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- International Journal of Public Health Springer Basel 60/6(2015-09-01), 727-736 1661-8556 60:6<727 2015 60 38