The Association of Pension Income with the Incidence of Type I Obesity among Retired Israelis

Figure 7

Relationship between the projected probability of Overweight (BMI ≥ 25), Type I (BMI ≥ 30), and Type II obesity (BMI ≥ 35) and annual gross income from pension among females above 67 years. Note. The figure describes the projected probabilities obtained from the probit model, where the dependent variables are BMI25, BMI30, BMI35, dummy variables, which equal one for Overweight (BMI ≥ 25), Type I (BMI ≥ 30), and Type II obesity (BMI ≥ 35) and zero otherwise. The independent variable is INCPENS, the annual gross monetary income from pensions measured in NIS (the local Israeli currency, 1 NIS  $0.25), which refers to the 40.1% (59.9%) of the 921 female respondents above 67 years who got pension (without pension). We excluded a few outliers for which INCPES > 250,000. For women, the respective Pearson correlations between BMI25, BMI30, BMI35, and INCPENS (−13.90%, −13.55%, −10.01%) are negative and different from zero correlation (, , and , respectively). The Pearson correlations between BMI25, BMI30, BMI35, and INCPENS among the 869 male respondents were found to be equal to zero (, , and , respectively).