TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2023//
TI  - Extreme violence and weight-related outcomes in Mexican adults
JO  - Journal of health and social behavior
A1  - Quintana-Navarrete, Miguel
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - Sociological research suggests that violent environments contribute to excess weight, a pressing health issue worldwide. However, this research has neglected extreme forms of violence, such as armed conflicts, a theoretically significant omission because armed conflict could reasonably lead to weight loss, not weight gain. I examine the weight-related, short-term consequences of the Mexican "War on Organized Crime." I combine body mass index (N = 3,341) and waist circumference (N = 3,509) measures from the Mexico Family Life Survey with a novel data set on aggressions, confrontations, and executions between 2009 and 2011 (CIDE-PPD database) and exploit variation in the timing of the outcome relative to violent events taking place in the same residential environment. I find a robust and large positive association between armed conflict events and weight gain in adults and suggestive evidence of the behavioral, emotional, and physiological/biochemical pathways connecting those variables.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0022-1465
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00221465231163906
ID  - ref1
ER  -