Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành hóa học dành cho các bạn yêu hóa học tham khảo đề tài: Occupational risk of overweight and obesity: an analysis of the Australian Health Survey | Allman-Farinelli et al. Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology 2010 5 14 http content 5 1 14 JOURNAL OF OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE ANDTOXICOLOGY RESEARCH Open Access Occupational risk of overweight and obesity an analysis of the Australian Health Survey Margaret A Allman-Farinelli 1 Tien Chey2 Dafna Merom2 and Adrian E Bauman2 Abstract Background Adults spend about one third of their day at work and occupation may be a risk factor for obesity because of associated socioeconomic and behavioral factors such as physical activity and sedentary time. The aim of this study was to examine body mass index BMI and prevalence of overweight and obesity by occupation and explore the contributions of socioeconomic factors and lifestyle behaviors including leisure time and commuting physical activity diet smoking and alcohol to occupational risk. Methods Secondary analyses of the National Health Survey in Australia 2005 were conducted for working age adults 20 to 64 years . Linear and logistic regression models using BMI as either dichotomous or continuous response were computed for occupation type. Model 1 was age-adjusted Model 2 adjusted for age and socioeconomic variables and Model 3 adjusted for age socioeconomic variables and lifestyle behaviours. All models were stratified by gender. Results Age-adjusted data indicated that men in associate professional OR 95 CI and intermediate production and transport OR 95 CI occupations had a higher risk of BMI 25 kg m2 than those without occupation and women in professional OR 95 CI management OR 95 CI and advanced clerical and service occupations OR 95 CI had a lower risk. After adjustment for socioeconomic factors no occupational group had an increased risk but for males professionals tradesmen laborers and elementary clerical workers had a lower risk as did female associate professionals and intermediate clerical workers. Adjustment .
