TY  - JOUR
VL  - 7
JF  - PLoS One
N1  - © 2012 Aitsi-Selmi et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. PMCID: PMC3384649

Amina Aitsi-Selmi is funded by a Wellcome Trust clinical Research Training Fellowship (Grant no WT088536MA) to complete a doctoral thesis at University College London on obesity, which includes the analysis presented in this paper. Further information about this grant is available from http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/Funding/. Martin Shipley is supported by the British Heart Foundation. Michael Marmot is supported by a MRC professorship. No additional external funding was received for this study. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
TI  - Interaction between education and household wealth on the risk of obesity in women in Egypt.
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0039507
Y1  - 2012/06/27/
ID  - discovery1350098
AV  - public
IS  - 6
N2  - Obesity is a growing problem in lower income countries particularly among women. There are few studies exploring individual socioeconomic status indicators in depth. This study examines the interaction of education and wealth in relation to obesity, hypothesising that education protects against the obesogenic effect of wealth.
A1  - Aitsi-Selmi, A
A1  - Chandola, T
A1  - Friel, S
A1  - Nouraei, R
A1  - Shipley, MJ
A1  - Marmot, MG
SN  - 1932-6203
ER  -