Official websites use. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites. To determine if weekly hours worked is associated with obesity among employed adults in US. Covariates of interest included in the analyses were income, age, education level, race, leisure physical activity, and gender.
A weighted and adjusted logistic regression model was conducted in order to investigate the association between the number of hours worked at a job per week and obesity status. Since , the prevalence of obesity among United States US adults has been increasing.
These contrasting statistics illustrate the significance of the obesity problem in the US specifically. Obesity in adults has been identified as a risk factor for many chronic diseases including type 2 diabetes, coronary heart disease, high blood pressure, stroke, and certain forms of cancer.
On average, working adults spend about one half of their work day sitting down, which is a substantial part of their waking hours. While previous literature investigated the association between occupational activity level and obesity, there is limited recent literature investigating the number of hours worked per week and its effect on obesity in the US on a nation-wide level.
The literature mainly measured occupational activity level or leisure time activity level and the relationship with obesity as measured by Body Mass Index BMI or waist circumference. The number of hours worked per week were sometimes included in analysis but not as the main exposure of interest.
