Air Pollution Affects Women’s Weight, BMI, Body Fat, and Waist Circumference

Obesity has long been thought to be caused by excessive eating and other unhealthy habits such as lack of sleep and genetic factors. However, a new study by the University of Michigan suggests otherwise that obesity in women is affected by air pollution, which contains harmful gases and other particles. Air Pollution Affects Women's Weight, BMI, Body Fat, and Waist Circumference

Annual Air Pollution

The University of Michigan research team used data from 1,654 respondents including white, black, Chinese, and Japanese women from the “Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation.” The study participants have a baseline median age of nearly 50 years and were tracked from 2000 to 2008.

The team arrived at their conclusion by linking residential addresses with estimated of combined air pollutant concentrations. In addition, the researchers examined the correlation between the pollution and the women’s body size and composition measures.

The result yield that air pollution exposure is connected with higher body fat percentage, higher fat proportion, and lower lean mass among midlife women. The body fat percentage increased by 4.5% or around 2.6 pounds. Due to the limited data sample, the study is unable to generalize if the air pollution-obesity relation is also applicable to men and women from other age groups.

Global Obesity Cases

Obesity affects some groups more than others, with a prevalence of 39.8% among adults belonging to the 20 to 39 age range group, 44.3% among adults from the 40 to 59 age range group, and 41.5% among adults aged 60 years and above, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

While there is no unifying or universal data showing which specific group of people are likely to get obese, the CDC says that there is a complex link between obesity and educational level or income, which differs based on sex and race or ethnicity.

Since 1957, worldwide obesity has almost tripled as of June 2021, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), which says over 1.9 billion adults were overweight and over 650 million of the figure were obese as of 2016.

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