Second article based on the RECORD Study accepted for publication in Epidemiology

In a second article accepted for publication in the US journal Epidemiology, Cinira Leal investigated, in the context of her PhD, the relationships between neighborhood socioeconomic status and body mass index or waist circumference in the Ile-de-France region.

In terms of methodology, the whole point is to know whether the empirical data available to us really allow us to conclude that there are relationships between neighborhood socioeconomic status and body mass index or waist circumference after adjustment for individual socioeconomic characteristics. Authors in the international scientific literature have suggested that such associations may be based on excessive extrapolations of regression models used for the analyses.

On the contrary, the work shows that it is possible to conclude, at least in the French Ile-de-France region, that body mass index and waist circumference increase regularly with decreasing socioeconomic status, especially average educational level, of the neighborhood.

The authors wish to thank the Ile-de-France Regional Health Agency, IReSP, and InVS for their support in this particular work.