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SUBMITTER: Cuevas AG
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7200308 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Cuevas Adolfo G AG Kawachi Ichiro I Ortiz Kasim K Pena Mariam M Reitzel Lorraine R LR McNeill Lorna H LH
Preventive medicine reports 20200423
Obesity remains a public health issue, especially for Blacks (or African Americans). Obesity is thought to reflect a complex interaction of socioenvironmental, biological, and cognitive factors. Yet, insufficient attention has been given to psychosocial factors like social cohesion within the African American community. Using multivariable linear regression, we examined the association between social cohesion, measured by the Social Cohesion and Trust scale, and body mass index (BMI) with cross- ...[more]