Association of poverty and social exclusion with body mass index among Special Olympics athletes in Europe.

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Association of poverty and social exclusion with body mass index among Special Olympics athletes in Europe.

Pauli Rintala John T. Foley Chris Faro Viviene A. Temple Meghann Lloyd

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Gerontology Male 030506 rehabilitation Health (social science)alipainoisuus Overweight Special Olympics Body Mass Index Risk Factors Medicine painoindeksi Child köyhyys biology 05 social sciences ylipaino Middle Aged Europe Social Isolation intellectual disability Female medicine.symptom Underweight 0305 other medical science 050104 developmental & child psychology Adult kehitysvammaisuus medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent 03 medical and health sciences Young Adult Thinness Intellectual Disability Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Sports for Persons with Disabilities Obesity Poverty Aged Poverty business.industry Athletes Public health Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health syrjäytyminen Overweight biology.organism_classification Health promotion Athletes Social exclusion business Body mass index Demography

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Objectives To examine the association of a risk of poverty and social exclusion (AROPE), age, and gender with the body mass index (BMI) status of European Special Olympics athletes. Methods BMI records were available for 1905 children and youth and 5517 adults from the Special Olympics International (SOI) Health Promotion database. AROPE was extracted from EU Eurostat statistics. Logistic regression analyses were used to predict BMI status. Results For children/youth and adults, respectively, 9.4 and 6.3% were underweight and 25.3 and 44.6% were overweight/obese. Being underweight was significantly associated with higher AROPE rates. Being female and lower AROPE rates were significantly associated with overweight/obesity for both children/youth (OR 1.27; 95% CI 1.07–1.50 and OR 0.97; 95% CI 0.96–0.98) and adults (OR 1.55; 95% CI 1.39–1.72 and OR 0.96; 95% CI 0.95–0.98). Conclusions The Europe 2020 “platform against poverty” strategy aims to ensure that those experiencing poverty and social exclusion share the benefits of economic growth. These findings suggest that SOI health promotion efforts to foster healthy BMI are needed and should be tailored to specific social and economic circumstances in Europe. peerReviewed

year	journal	country	edition	language
2016-09-28	International journal of public health

10.1007/s00038-017-0982-5 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28550368