Psychosocial Stress and Overweight and Obesity: Findings From the Chicago Community Adult Health Study

Cuevas, Adolfo; Chen, Ruijia; Thurber, Katherine; Slopen, Natalie; Williams, David R

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Psychosocial Stress and Overweight and Obesity: Findings From the Chicago Community Adult Health Study

Date

2018

Authors

Cuevas, Adolfo

Chen, Ruijia

Thurber, Katherine

Slopen, Natalie

Williams, David R

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Abstract

Psychosocial stress has been implicated as a risk factor for overweight and obesity. However, research on psychosocial stressors and overweight and obesity has typically focused on single stressors in isolation, which may overestimate the impact of a specific stressor and fail to describe the role of cumulative stress on overweight and obesity risk.