title: Correspondence between overweight and socioeconomic and demographic indicators in the adult Brazilian population.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To verify the correlation between overweight and socioeconomic and demographic indicators among Brazilian adults, using data from the Brazilian Household Budget Survey from 2008/2009.
  
  
  METHODS
  We analyzed the joint relationships between overweight and socioeconomic and demographic indicators in the Brazilian adult population (99,532,672 individuals), through the multiple correspondence analysis technique.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The featured profile of the Brazilian adult population with regard to overweight was correlated with ages from 30 years of the most developed and economically social geographic regions of Brazil; however between genders, the correlation was in the opposite direction in the variables income, education, and subjective issues about life conditions related to food and nutrition security.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  By the joint relationship between overweight and selected demographic and socioeconomic indicators, the urgency of the development of strategies and/or preventive public health programs of health problems with overweight in the Brazilian adult population is suggested.
authors.affiliation: Research Group in Kinanthropometry, Human Performance and Strength Training, Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, Seropédica, RJ, Brazil.
authors.forename: Vladimir Schuindt
authors.initials: VS
authors.lastname: da Silva
authors.affiliation: Research Group in Kinanthropometry, Human Performance and Strength Training, Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, Seropédica, RJ, Brazil.
authors.forename: Israel
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Souza
authors.affiliation: Research Group in Kinanthropometry and Human Performance, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil.
authors.forename: Diego Augusto Santos
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Silva
authors.affiliation: Research Group in Kinanthropometry and Human Performance, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil.
authors.forename: Edio Luiz
authors.initials: EL
authors.lastname: Petroski
authors.affiliation: National Public Health School Sergio Arouca, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
authors.forename: Maria de Jesus Mendes
authors.initials: Mde J
authors.lastname: da Fonseca
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001938:Brazil / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009752:Nutritional Status; D050177:Overweight / Q000453:epidemiology*; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D055815:Young Adult