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Obesity and health behaviours of British adults with self-reported intellectual impairments: cross sectional survey

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Obesity and health behaviours of British adults with self-reported intellectual impairments: cross sectional survey. / Robertson, Janet; Emerson, Eric; Baines, Susannah et al.
In: BMC Public Health, Vol. 14, No. 1, 219, 03.03.2014.

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@article{71d2b8d84fed4eb88d5f5b8194a9065d,
title = "Obesity and health behaviours of British adults with self-reported intellectual impairments: cross sectional survey",
abstract = "BackgroundPeople with intellectual disability have significantly higher age-adjusted rates of mortality and morbidity (including obesity) than their non-disabled peers. They are also significantly less likely to be physically active.MethodsSecondary analysis of de-identified cross-sectional data from the first two waves of Understanding Society, a new longitudinal study focusing on the life experiences of UK citizens. Interviews were undertaken with 50,994 individuals aged 16 and over in Wave 1 and 54,585 in Wave 2. Of these, 520 participants age 16-49 (1.8% of the unweighted age-restricted sample) were identified at either Wave 1 or Wave 2 as having self-reported intellectual impairments.ResultsBritish adults with self-reported intellectual impairments have higher rates of obesity, inactivity, tobacco and alcohol use and poorer nutrition than their non-disabled peers. Adjusting risk estimates for between group differences in age, gender and exposure to material hardship indicated that a significant proportion of their increased risk of obesity, tobacco use and poorer nutrition may be attributable to their poorer living conditions (rather than their self-reported intellectual impairments per se).ConclusionsPeople with intellectual disabilities should begin to be regarded as a 'vulnerable' group in the context of public health policy and practice.",
author = "Janet Robertson and Eric Emerson and Susannah Baines and Chris Hatton",
note = "{\textcopyright} 2014 Robertson et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.",
year = "2014",
month = mar,
day = "3",
doi = "10.1186/1471-2458-14-219",
language = "English",
volume = "14",
journal = "BMC Public Health",
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TY - JOUR

T1 - Obesity and health behaviours of British adults with self-reported intellectual impairments

T2 - cross sectional survey

AU - Robertson, Janet

AU - Emerson, Eric

AU - Baines, Susannah

AU - Hatton, Chris

N1 - © 2014 Robertson et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.

PY - 2014/3/3

Y1 - 2014/3/3

N2 - BackgroundPeople with intellectual disability have significantly higher age-adjusted rates of mortality and morbidity (including obesity) than their non-disabled peers. They are also significantly less likely to be physically active.MethodsSecondary analysis of de-identified cross-sectional data from the first two waves of Understanding Society, a new longitudinal study focusing on the life experiences of UK citizens. Interviews were undertaken with 50,994 individuals aged 16 and over in Wave 1 and 54,585 in Wave 2. Of these, 520 participants age 16-49 (1.8% of the unweighted age-restricted sample) were identified at either Wave 1 or Wave 2 as having self-reported intellectual impairments.ResultsBritish adults with self-reported intellectual impairments have higher rates of obesity, inactivity, tobacco and alcohol use and poorer nutrition than their non-disabled peers. Adjusting risk estimates for between group differences in age, gender and exposure to material hardship indicated that a significant proportion of their increased risk of obesity, tobacco use and poorer nutrition may be attributable to their poorer living conditions (rather than their self-reported intellectual impairments per se).ConclusionsPeople with intellectual disabilities should begin to be regarded as a 'vulnerable' group in the context of public health policy and practice.

AB - BackgroundPeople with intellectual disability have significantly higher age-adjusted rates of mortality and morbidity (including obesity) than their non-disabled peers. They are also significantly less likely to be physically active.MethodsSecondary analysis of de-identified cross-sectional data from the first two waves of Understanding Society, a new longitudinal study focusing on the life experiences of UK citizens. Interviews were undertaken with 50,994 individuals aged 16 and over in Wave 1 and 54,585 in Wave 2. Of these, 520 participants age 16-49 (1.8% of the unweighted age-restricted sample) were identified at either Wave 1 or Wave 2 as having self-reported intellectual impairments.ResultsBritish adults with self-reported intellectual impairments have higher rates of obesity, inactivity, tobacco and alcohol use and poorer nutrition than their non-disabled peers. Adjusting risk estimates for between group differences in age, gender and exposure to material hardship indicated that a significant proportion of their increased risk of obesity, tobacco use and poorer nutrition may be attributable to their poorer living conditions (rather than their self-reported intellectual impairments per se).ConclusionsPeople with intellectual disabilities should begin to be regarded as a 'vulnerable' group in the context of public health policy and practice.

U2 - 10.1186/1471-2458-14-219

DO - 10.1186/1471-2458-14-219

M3 - Journal article

C2 - 24588837

VL - 14

JO - BMC Public Health

JF - BMC Public Health

SN - 1471-2458

IS - 1

M1 - 219

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