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Obesity among African American people in the United States: A review
Obesity is a growing public health crisis in the United States and is associated with a substantial disease burden due to an increased risk for multiple complications, including cardiovascular and metabolic diseases. As highlighted in this review, obesity disproportionately affects the African Ameri...
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2023
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10107750/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36695059 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/oby.23640 |
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author | Lofton, Holly Ard, Jamy D. Hunt, Rameck R. Knight, Michael G. |
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description | Obesity is a growing public health crisis in the United States and is associated with a substantial disease burden due to an increased risk for multiple complications, including cardiovascular and metabolic diseases. As highlighted in this review, obesity disproportionately affects the African American population, women in particular, regardless of socioeconomic status. Structural racism remains a major contributor to health disparities between African American people and the general population, and it limits access to healthy foods, safe spaces to exercise, adequate health insurance, and medication, all of which impact obesity prevalence and outcomes. Conscious and unconscious interpersonal racism also impacts obesity care and outcomes in African American people and may adversely affect interactions between health care practitioners and patients. To reduce health disparities, structural racism and racial bias must be addressed. Culturally relevant interventions for obesity management have been successfully implemented that have shown benefits in weight management and risk‐factor reduction. Strategies to improve health care practitioner–patient engagement should also be implemented to improve health outcomes in African American people with obesity. When managing obesity in African American people, it is critical to take a holistic approach and to consider an individual's social and cultural context in order to implement a successful treatment strategy. [Image: see text] |
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spelling | pubmed-101077502023-04-18 Obesity among African American people in the United States: A review Lofton, Holly Ard, Jamy D. Hunt, Rameck R. Knight, Michael G. Obesity (Silver Spring) REVIEWS Obesity is a growing public health crisis in the United States and is associated with a substantial disease burden due to an increased risk for multiple complications, including cardiovascular and metabolic diseases. As highlighted in this review, obesity disproportionately affects the African American population, women in particular, regardless of socioeconomic status. Structural racism remains a major contributor to health disparities between African American people and the general population, and it limits access to healthy foods, safe spaces to exercise, adequate health insurance, and medication, all of which impact obesity prevalence and outcomes. Conscious and unconscious interpersonal racism also impacts obesity care and outcomes in African American people and may adversely affect interactions between health care practitioners and patients. To reduce health disparities, structural racism and racial bias must be addressed. Culturally relevant interventions for obesity management have been successfully implemented that have shown benefits in weight management and risk‐factor reduction. Strategies to improve health care practitioner–patient engagement should also be implemented to improve health outcomes in African American people with obesity. When managing obesity in African American people, it is critical to take a holistic approach and to consider an individual's social and cultural context in order to implement a successful treatment strategy. [Image: see text] John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2023-01-25 2023-02 /pmc/articles/PMC10107750/ /pubmed/36695059 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/oby.23640 Text en © 2023 The Authors. Obesity published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of The Obesity Society. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes. |
spellingShingle | REVIEWS Lofton, Holly Ard, Jamy D. Hunt, Rameck R. Knight, Michael G. Obesity among African American people in the United States: A review |
title | Obesity among African American people in the United States: A review |
title_full | Obesity among African American people in the United States: A review |
title_fullStr | Obesity among African American people in the United States: A review |
title_full_unstemmed | Obesity among African American people in the United States: A review |
title_short | Obesity among African American people in the United States: A review |
title_sort | obesity among african american people in the united states: a review |
topic | REVIEWS |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10107750/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36695059 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/oby.23640 |
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