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Higher educational attainment is linked to lower BMI in both women and men in Helsinki employees aged 19–39, with stronger socioeconomic gradients among women.
- Why it matters: Gender-specific pathways for how socioeconomic position relates to BMI are unclear, limiting targeted prevention strategies for young and early midlife adults.
- What they did: Using 2017 survey data (n = 4,400; 80% women), the study ran gender-specific multiple mediation models with structural equation modeling and multiple imputation to test diet and activity mediators.
- The result: Among women, VPA was the strongest SEP–BMI mediator (indirect effect 0.35, 95% CI 0.26–0.44), while among men significant mediators included red and processed meat (0.12, 95% CI 0.03–0.23) and sedentary time (0.11, 95% CI 0.01–0.24).
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