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SOCIAL CONTRASTS IN THE INCIDENCE OF OBESITY AMONG ADULT LARGE-CITY DWELLERS IN POLAND IN 1986 AND 1996

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 1999

ELZBIETA ROGUCKA  and
TADEUSZ BIELICKI
ELZBIETA ROGUCKA
Affiliation:
Institute of Anthropology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Wrocław, Poland
TADEUSZ BIELICKI
Affiliation:
Institute of Anthropology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Wrocław, Poland
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Abstract

The incidence of obesity, defined as the fraction of persons with BMIs exceeding 30·0, was examined in two birth cohorts of 40–50-year-old occupationally active inhabitants of the city of Wrocław, Poland. In both cohorts and both genders obesity increased monotonically with decreasing position on a three-level educational scale. During the 1986–1996 decade obesity increased dramatically among males with trade school education only; concomitant shifts were much smaller or absent in the college-educated groups. The contrast in obesity between the opposite ends of the educational scale has widened markedly in both genders; and the between-gender gap has declined somewhat.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Biosocial Science , Volume 31 , Issue 3 , July 1999 , pp. 419 - 423
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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