title: Obesity prevalence in a cohort of women in early pregnancy from a neighbourhood perspective.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The evidence of an association between neighbourhood deprivation and overweight is established for different populations. However no previous studies on neighbourhood variations in obesity in pregnant women were found. In this study we aimed to determine whether obesity during early pregnancy varied by neighbourhood economic status.
  
  
  METHODS
  A register based study on 94,323 primiparous pregnant women in 586 Swedish neighbourhoods during the years 1992-2001. Multilevel technique was used to regress obesity prevalence on socioeconomic individual-level variables and the neighbourhood economic status. Five hundred and eighty-six neighbourhoods in the three major cities of Sweden, Stockholm, Göteborg and Malmö, during 1992-2001, were included. The majority of neighbourhoods had a population of 4 00010 000 inhabitants.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Seven per cent of the variation in obesity prevalence was at the neighbourhood level and the odds of being obese were almost doubled in poor areas.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Our findings supports a community approach in the prevention of obesity in general and thus also in pregnant women.
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Sciences, MidSweden University, Ostersund, Sweden. eva.sellstrom@miun.se
authors.forename: Eva
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Sellström
authors.forename: Göran
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Arnoldsson
authors.forename: Marie
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Alricsson
authors.forename: Anders
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hjern
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D015992:Body Mass Index; D015331:Cohort Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009765:Obesity / Q000453:epidemiology*; D011203:Poverty; D011247:Pregnancy; D011248:Pregnancy Complications / Q000453:epidemiology*; D015995:Prevalence; D012042:Registries; D012111:Residence Characteristics; D013548:Sweden / Q000453:epidemiology; D014505:Urban Population / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D055815:Young Adult
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