Title |
An examination of the relationships between service use and alternative measures of obesity among community-dwelling adults in Ireland
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Published in |
HEPAC Health Economics in Prevention and Care, October 2014
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DOI | 10.1007/s10198-014-0643-z |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
Edel Doherty, Michelle Queally, Ciaran O’Neill |
Abstract |
Obesity has received increased attention arising from its increasing prevalence and the implications of obesity-related problems for society and the wider economy. To estimate healthcare and non-healthcare obesity impacts, many studies rely on body mass index (BMI) as a measure of obesity. However BMI is considered to be a noisy measure of total body fat that unlike some other measures does not capture fat distribution. This study uses one such measure, the waist-to-hip ratio, as both an alternative and in conjunction with BMI in the estimation of the relationship between adiposity and health service use. The article uses data from a large-scale study of older adults living in Ireland (the Tilda data set). The findings indicate that studies that include both measures of general and central adiposity may provide a more comprehensive characterisation of the relationship between healthcare service use and adiposity. |
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Ireland | 1 | 25% |
Australia | 1 | 25% |
Unknown | 2 | 50% |
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Members of the public | 4 | 100% |
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Student > Bachelor | 3 | 25% |
Student > Ph. D. Student | 2 | 17% |
Researcher | 2 | 17% |
Student > Master | 2 | 17% |
Student > Doctoral Student | 1 | 8% |
Other | 1 | 8% |
Unknown | 1 | 8% |
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Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 3 | 25% |
Psychology | 2 | 17% |
Social Sciences | 2 | 17% |
Immunology and Microbiology | 1 | 8% |
Other | 0 | 0% |
Unknown | 1 | 8% |