Publication type
Journal Article
Authors
Publication date
December 15, 2017
Summary:
More education is associated with a lower body mass index (BMI) and likelihood of being overweight. However, since a large proportion of the variation in body mass is due to genetic makeup, it has been hypothesized that education may moderate the genetic risk. We estimate main associations between (i) education, (ii) genetic risk, and (iii) interactions between education and genetic risk on BMI and the probability of being overweight in the UK and Finland. The estimates show that education is negatively associated with BMI and overweightness, and genetic risk is positively associated. However, the interactions between education and genetic risk are small and statistically insignificant.
Published in
Social Science and Medicine
Volume and page numbers
Volume: 195 , p.12 -16
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.10.027
ISSN
2779536
Subjects
#524699