Residing In A Community With More Obesity May Be A Risk Factor For Individual Residents To Become Overweight Or Obese,

“Residing in a community with more obesity may be a risk factor for its individual residents to become overweight or obese,” researchers concluded. The findings were published online in JAMA Pediatrics. What’s more, “similar findings were reported for children, where a 1% higher county obesity rate was linked to an increased risk of overweight or obesity...and a higher BMI z-score.” The authors of an accompanying editorial wrote, “The idea of obesity being contagious provides a very useful analogy for pediatricians to recognize the association of the social environment with obesity (through social networks and/or social norms).” https://www.medpagetoday.com/pediatrics/obesity/70665