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Obesity prevalence is increasing in many countries at alarming levels. A difficulty in the conception of policies to reverse these trends is the identification of the drivers behind the obesity epidemics. Here, we implement a spatial spreading analysis to investigate whether obesity shows spatial correlations, revealing the effect of collective and global factors acting above individual choices. We find a regularity in the spatial fluctuations of their prevalence revealed by a pattern of scale-free long-range correlations. The fluctuations are anomalous, deviating in a fundamental way from the weaker correlations found in the underlying population distribution indicating the presence of collective behavior, i.e., individual habits may have negligible influence in shaping the patterns of spreading. Interestingly, we find the same scale-free correlations in economic activities associated with food production. These results motivate future interventions to investigate the causality of this relation providing guidance for the implementation of preventive health policies.

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Documento: Artículo
Título:Collective behavior in the spatial spreading of obesity
Autor:Gallos, L.K.; Barttfeld, P.; Havlin, S.; Sigman, M.; Makse, H.A.
Filiación:Levich Institute and Physics Department, City College of New York, New York, NY 10031, United States
Integrative Neuroscience Laboratory, Physics Department, FCEyN, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Minerva Center and Physics Department, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, 52900, Israel
Palabras clave:article; behavior; human; medical geography; obesity; prevalence; risk factor; United States; Behavior; Geography, Medical; Humans; Obesity; Prevalence; Risk Factors; United States
Año:2012
Volumen:2
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep00454
Título revista:Scientific Reports
Título revista abreviado:Sci. Rep.
ISSN:20452322
Registro:https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_20452322_v2_n_p_Gallos

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Gallos, L.K., Barttfeld, P., Havlin, S., Sigman, M. & Makse, H.A. (2012) . Collective behavior in the spatial spreading of obesity. Scientific Reports, 2.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep00454
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Gallos, L.K., Barttfeld, P., Havlin, S., Sigman, M., Makse, H.A. "Collective behavior in the spatial spreading of obesity" . Scientific Reports 2 (2012).
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep00454
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Gallos, L.K., Barttfeld, P., Havlin, S., Sigman, M., Makse, H.A. "Collective behavior in the spatial spreading of obesity" . Scientific Reports, vol. 2, 2012.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep00454
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Gallos, L.K., Barttfeld, P., Havlin, S., Sigman, M., Makse, H.A. Collective behavior in the spatial spreading of obesity. Sci. Rep. 2012;2.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep00454