Cargando…
Body mass index in young men in Switzerland after the national shutdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic: results from a cross-sectional monitoring study at the population level since 2010
BACKGROUND: Owing to the coronavirus disease pandemic, the Swiss goverment imposed a shutdown twice in 2020, which may have changed diet and physical activity. Regarding the question of weight change during the pandemic, little information based on measured weight data is available. We aimed to inve...
Autores principales: | , , , , , , , , |
---|---|
Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
Publicado: |
Oxford University Press
2022
|
Materias: | |
Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9452117/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35993882 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckac111 |
_version_ | 1784784865404649472 |
---|---|
author | Meili, Samuel Brabec, Marek Rühli, Frank Buehrer, Thomas W Gültekin, Nejla Stanga, Zeno Bender, Nicole Staub, Kaspar Reber, Emilie |
author_facet | Meili, Samuel Brabec, Marek Rühli, Frank Buehrer, Thomas W Gültekin, Nejla Stanga, Zeno Bender, Nicole Staub, Kaspar Reber, Emilie |
author_sort | Meili, Samuel |
collection | PubMed |
description | BACKGROUND: Owing to the coronavirus disease pandemic, the Swiss goverment imposed a shutdown twice in 2020, which may have changed diet and physical activity. Regarding the question of weight change during the pandemic, little information based on measured weight data is available. We aimed to investigate whether the body mass indices (BMIs) of young Swiss men after the two shutdowns in spring and fall 2020 differed from those of young men examined before the shutdowns. METHODS: We analysed young Swiss men’s BMIs taken during mandatory recruitment for the Swiss Armed Forces at the cross-sectional (not individual longitudinal) monitoring level and across weeks of conscription between January 2010 and July 2021 (n = 373 016). These data allow for continuous health monitoring of young men at almost the population level (coverage, >90%). For statistical modelling, we used the generalized additive model (GAM) framework. RESULTS: We showed that the BMIs of the conscripts examined in the 15 weeks after the two shutdowns in spring and autumn 2020 were not or only slightly different from their baseline values. Sensitivity analyses revealed that this conclusion also holds if the BMI distribution or prevalence of excess weight is assessed. The GAM further showed the significant effects of individual and area-based measures of socioeconomic position and age on BMI. CONCLUSION: Our results suggest that lifestyle changes during the pandemic in young men might have been too modest to be reflected in body weight. However, longitudinal data and/or data on women, children, or the elderly may lead to different conclusions. |
format | Online Article Text |
id | pubmed-9452117 |
institution | National Center for Biotechnology Information |
language | English |
publishDate | 2022 |
publisher | Oxford University Press |
record_format | MEDLINE/PubMed |
spelling | pubmed-94521172022-09-09 Body mass index in young men in Switzerland after the national shutdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic: results from a cross-sectional monitoring study at the population level since 2010 Meili, Samuel Brabec, Marek Rühli, Frank Buehrer, Thomas W Gültekin, Nejla Stanga, Zeno Bender, Nicole Staub, Kaspar Reber, Emilie Eur J Public Health Covid-19 BACKGROUND: Owing to the coronavirus disease pandemic, the Swiss goverment imposed a shutdown twice in 2020, which may have changed diet and physical activity. Regarding the question of weight change during the pandemic, little information based on measured weight data is available. We aimed to investigate whether the body mass indices (BMIs) of young Swiss men after the two shutdowns in spring and fall 2020 differed from those of young men examined before the shutdowns. METHODS: We analysed young Swiss men’s BMIs taken during mandatory recruitment for the Swiss Armed Forces at the cross-sectional (not individual longitudinal) monitoring level and across weeks of conscription between January 2010 and July 2021 (n = 373 016). These data allow for continuous health monitoring of young men at almost the population level (coverage, >90%). For statistical modelling, we used the generalized additive model (GAM) framework. RESULTS: We showed that the BMIs of the conscripts examined in the 15 weeks after the two shutdowns in spring and autumn 2020 were not or only slightly different from their baseline values. Sensitivity analyses revealed that this conclusion also holds if the BMI distribution or prevalence of excess weight is assessed. The GAM further showed the significant effects of individual and area-based measures of socioeconomic position and age on BMI. CONCLUSION: Our results suggest that lifestyle changes during the pandemic in young men might have been too modest to be reflected in body weight. However, longitudinal data and/or data on women, children, or the elderly may lead to different conclusions. Oxford University Press 2022-08-22 /pmc/articles/PMC9452117/ /pubmed/35993882 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckac111 Text en © The Author(s) 2022. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Public Health Association. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Covid-19 Meili, Samuel Brabec, Marek Rühli, Frank Buehrer, Thomas W Gültekin, Nejla Stanga, Zeno Bender, Nicole Staub, Kaspar Reber, Emilie Body mass index in young men in Switzerland after the national shutdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic: results from a cross-sectional monitoring study at the population level since 2010 |
title | Body mass index in young men in Switzerland after the national shutdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic: results from a cross-sectional monitoring study at the population level since 2010 |
title_full | Body mass index in young men in Switzerland after the national shutdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic: results from a cross-sectional monitoring study at the population level since 2010 |
title_fullStr | Body mass index in young men in Switzerland after the national shutdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic: results from a cross-sectional monitoring study at the population level since 2010 |
title_full_unstemmed | Body mass index in young men in Switzerland after the national shutdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic: results from a cross-sectional monitoring study at the population level since 2010 |
title_short | Body mass index in young men in Switzerland after the national shutdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic: results from a cross-sectional monitoring study at the population level since 2010 |
title_sort | body mass index in young men in switzerland after the national shutdowns during the covid-19 pandemic: results from a cross-sectional monitoring study at the population level since 2010 |
topic | Covid-19 |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9452117/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35993882 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckac111 |
work_keys_str_mv | AT meilisamuel bodymassindexinyoungmeninswitzerlandafterthenationalshutdownsduringthecovid19pandemicresultsfromacrosssectionalmonitoringstudyatthepopulationlevelsince2010 AT brabecmarek bodymassindexinyoungmeninswitzerlandafterthenationalshutdownsduringthecovid19pandemicresultsfromacrosssectionalmonitoringstudyatthepopulationlevelsince2010 AT ruhlifrank bodymassindexinyoungmeninswitzerlandafterthenationalshutdownsduringthecovid19pandemicresultsfromacrosssectionalmonitoringstudyatthepopulationlevelsince2010 AT buehrerthomasw bodymassindexinyoungmeninswitzerlandafterthenationalshutdownsduringthecovid19pandemicresultsfromacrosssectionalmonitoringstudyatthepopulationlevelsince2010 AT gultekinnejla bodymassindexinyoungmeninswitzerlandafterthenationalshutdownsduringthecovid19pandemicresultsfromacrosssectionalmonitoringstudyatthepopulationlevelsince2010 AT stangazeno bodymassindexinyoungmeninswitzerlandafterthenationalshutdownsduringthecovid19pandemicresultsfromacrosssectionalmonitoringstudyatthepopulationlevelsince2010 AT bendernicole bodymassindexinyoungmeninswitzerlandafterthenationalshutdownsduringthecovid19pandemicresultsfromacrosssectionalmonitoringstudyatthepopulationlevelsince2010 AT staubkaspar bodymassindexinyoungmeninswitzerlandafterthenationalshutdownsduringthecovid19pandemicresultsfromacrosssectionalmonitoringstudyatthepopulationlevelsince2010 AT reberemilie bodymassindexinyoungmeninswitzerlandafterthenationalshutdownsduringthecovid19pandemicresultsfromacrosssectionalmonitoringstudyatthepopulationlevelsince2010 |