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High Prevalence of Obesity Among the Poor in Mexico
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To the Editor: The burden of disease in developing countries has traditionally been characterized by undernutrition and infectious diseases. However, lifestyle in many developing countries now parallels that in the developed world, with increasing prevalence of overweight and obesity.1 It is unclear, however, how the prevalence of obesity varies across levels of socioeconomic status within such societies. We examined the prevalence of overweight and obesity among the rural poor in Mexico in comparison with a national sample.
Methods
We obtained data from 2 national surveys in Mexico. The first was conducted in 2000 in 45 260 adults as part of the National Health Survey, which was designed as a multistage, stratified, and clustered survey, nationally representative of the Mexican noninstitutionalized population.2 The second survey was conducted in 2003 in 12 873 adults as part of the Social Welfare Survey, which was designed to be representative of the poorest (income <20th percentile), rural (towns . . . [Full Text of this Article]
Lia C. Fernald, PhD, MBA
fernald@haas.berkeley.edu
Institute for Business and Economic Research
University of California, Berkeley
Juan Pablo Gutierrez, MS;
Lynnette M. Neufeld, PhD;
Gustavo Olaiz, MD, MPH;
Stefano M. Bertozzi, MD, PhD
Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública
Cuernavaca, Mexico
Michele Mietus-Snyder, MD
School of Nursing
University of California, San Francisco
Paul J. Gertler, PhD
School of Public Health and Haas School of Business
University of California, Berkeley
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