Gender Differences in Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQL) of Overweight and Obese Adults in a Representative Sample of Greek Urban Population

Background: The main objective was to investigate the relationship between Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQL) and Body Mass Index (BMI) status according to gender in a representative sample of Greek urban population. Methods: In this cross-sectional study, data were collected from 1060 partic...

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Autores principales:	Ioannis Vrettos, Panagiota Voukelatou, Evelina Pappa, Chrysoula Beletsioti, Dimitris Niakas
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Publicado:	Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2021
Materias:	Gender Health-related quality of life Obesity Overweight Public aspects of medicine RA1-1270
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:f3378a13cd024b6e88c3e9ab905acf562021-12-02T19:21:11ZGender Differences in Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQL) of Overweight and Obese Adults in a Representative Sample of Greek Urban Population10.18502/ijph.v50i10.75042251-60852251-6093https://doaj.org/article/f3378a13cd024b6e88c3e9ab905acf562021-10-01T00:00:00Zhttps://ijph.tums.ac.ir/index.php/ijph/article/view/19468https://doaj.org/toc/2251-6085https://doaj.org/toc/2251-6093 Background: The main objective was to investigate the relationship between Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQL) and Body Mass Index (BMI) status according to gender in a representative sample of Greek urban population. Methods: In this cross-sectional study, data were collected from 1060 participants (mean age 47.10 yr, 95%CI 46.09–48.07, 52.7% females) in a stratified sample of representative urban population during 1-20 Apr 2016 in Athens, Greece. Socio-demographic characteristics and medical history were involved. BMI (kg/m2) was calculated, based on reported height and weight. HRQL was assessed by using the Greek version of SF36. Parametric tests and multiple logistic regression analysis were applied to identify whether socio-demographic characteristics differed across BMI groups. Mann–Whitney test was used to detect significant differences in SF36 scales between men and women across different BMI and age groups. Μultivariate stepwise linear regression analyses were performed to investigate the influence of sociodemographic variables on HRQL. Results: The effect of being overweight or obese differs by age and gender and that this negative impact in HRQL was greater in women than in men. More vulnerable were overweight young and obese middle-aged woman both in terms of physical and mental health. On the other hand, HRQL of normal weight men and women did not differ in almost all age groups. Conclusion: Gender differences on HRQL observed in the general population were mediated by the different way that the two genders affected by increases in body weight. Ioannis VrettosPanagiota VoukelatouEvelina PappaChrysoula BeletsiotiDimitris NiakasTehran University of Medical SciencesarticleGenderHealth-related quality of lifeObesityOverweightPublic aspects of medicineRA1-1270ENIranian Journal of Public Health, Vol 50, Iss 10 (2021)
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topic	Gender Health-related quality of life Obesity Overweight Public aspects of medicine RA1-1270
spellingShingle	Gender Health-related quality of life Obesity Overweight Public aspects of medicine RA1-1270 Ioannis Vrettos Panagiota Voukelatou Evelina Pappa Chrysoula Beletsioti Dimitris Niakas Gender Differences in Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQL) of Overweight and Obese Adults in a Representative Sample of Greek Urban Population
description	Background: The main objective was to investigate the relationship between Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQL) and Body Mass Index (BMI) status according to gender in a representative sample of Greek urban population. Methods: In this cross-sectional study, data were collected from 1060 participants (mean age 47.10 yr, 95%CI 46.09–48.07, 52.7% females) in a stratified sample of representative urban population during 1-20 Apr 2016 in Athens, Greece. Socio-demographic characteristics and medical history were involved. BMI (kg/m2) was calculated, based on reported height and weight. HRQL was assessed by using the Greek version of SF36. Parametric tests and multiple logistic regression analysis were applied to identify whether socio-demographic characteristics differed across BMI groups. Mann–Whitney test was used to detect significant differences in SF36 scales between men and women across different BMI and age groups. Μultivariate stepwise linear regression analyses were performed to investigate the influence of sociodemographic variables on HRQL. Results: The effect of being overweight or obese differs by age and gender and that this negative impact in HRQL was greater in women than in men. More vulnerable were overweight young and obese middle-aged woman both in terms of physical and mental health. On the other hand, HRQL of normal weight men and women did not differ in almost all age groups. Conclusion: Gender differences on HRQL observed in the general population were mediated by the different way that the two genders affected by increases in body weight.
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author	Ioannis Vrettos Panagiota Voukelatou Evelina Pappa Chrysoula Beletsioti Dimitris Niakas
author_facet	Ioannis Vrettos Panagiota Voukelatou Evelina Pappa Chrysoula Beletsioti Dimitris Niakas
author_sort	Ioannis Vrettos
title	Gender Differences in Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQL) of Overweight and Obese Adults in a Representative Sample of Greek Urban Population
title_short	Gender Differences in Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQL) of Overweight and Obese Adults in a Representative Sample of Greek Urban Population
title_full	Gender Differences in Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQL) of Overweight and Obese Adults in a Representative Sample of Greek Urban Population
title_fullStr	Gender Differences in Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQL) of Overweight and Obese Adults in a Representative Sample of Greek Urban Population
title_full_unstemmed	Gender Differences in Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQL) of Overweight and Obese Adults in a Representative Sample of Greek Urban Population
title_sort	gender differences in health-related quality of life (hrql) of overweight and obese adults in a representative sample of greek urban population
publisher	Tehran University of Medical Sciences
publishDate	2021
url	https://doaj.org/article/f3378a13cd024b6e88c3e9ab905acf56
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Gender Differences in Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQL) of Overweight and Obese Adults in a Representative Sample of Greek Urban Population

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