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Record W4416309609 · doi:10.1186/s12963-025-00424-7

Life-course socioeconomic status and obesity: scoping review

2025· article· en· W4416309609 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenuePopulation Health Metrics · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicObesity, Physical Activity, Diet
Canadian institutionsCentre Intégré de Santé et de Services Sociaux des LaurentidesCentre Intégré Universitaire de Santé et de Services Sociaux du Centre-Sud-de-l'Île-de-MontréalUniversité de MontréalInstitut National de Santé Publique du QuébecUniversité Laval
FundersFonds de Recherche du Québec - Santé
KeywordsSocioeconomic statusPsychological interventionInequalitySocial classPublic healthSocial inequalityHealth services researchEpidemiology

Abstract

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OBJECTIF: The life-course approach is believed to enhance our understanding of the intricate links between life-course socioeconomic status and obesity. In this scoping review, we delve into the literature that examines the links between life-course socioeconomic status and obesity and aim to characterize the life-course approach that was used. METHODS: Our search strategy was based on the PRISMA checklist and was performed using three databases: Medline (PubMed), GeoBase (Embase), and Web of Science. We focused on studies that identify life-course socioeconomic and built environment indicators and associate them with body weight status indicators. RESULTS: Using stringent inclusion criteria, we identified 52 relevant studies. Our analysis identified three main methodological strategies for studying the influence of life-course socioeconomic status on obesity. The main methodological approaches identified that characterize life-course approach are: 1) sensitive periods, 2) social mobility, or 3) risk accumulation. We found that low socioeconomic status in childhood, adulthood, or late adulthood; a disadvantaged socioeconomic trajectory; and cumulative exposure to socioeconomic disadvantages throughout the life-course increased the risk of obesity. Notably, the association between life-course socioeconomic status and obesity was significantly stronger for women in 56% of the studies. CONCLUSION: The social inequalities in obesity observed today are the outcome of socioeconomic inequalities accumulated over the life course. 56% of studies show that the influence of life-course socioeconomic status on socioeconomic inequalities in obesity is even stronger in women. Policymakers should prioritize specific interventions aimed at reducing socioeconomic disparities in obesity, particularly among women.

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.089
Threshold uncertainty score0.555

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.049
GPT teacher head0.401
Teacher spread0.352 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it