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Exploring racial differences in the obesity gender gap

Year: 2020

Type: article

Abstract: To investigate whether the gender gap in obesity prevalence is greater among US Blacks than Whites in a study designed to account for racial differences in socioeconomic and environmental conditions.

Source: Carolina Digital Repository (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

DOI: 10.17615/v6kk-zp05

Authors: Seamans, Marissa J., Cole, Stephen R., LaVeist, Thomas A., Robinson, Whitney R., Thorpe, Roland J.

Language: English

Topic: Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet

Subfield: Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDGs: Reduced inequalities, Good health and well-being, Gender equality

Open Access status: green

Funders: Pfizer, National Institutes of Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, National Cancer Institute, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities, National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Awards: G1113498402, G1372666729, G1665669080, G1789099407, G1871174730, G2270545241, G3177719516, G339783423, G3511106470, G3617356680, G4628806071, G6613980829, G6695881142, Racial disparities in cancer outcomes: quantifying modifiable mechanisms, G9000006923, G9000042165, Population Research Training

OpenAlex ID: W4298207432

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