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Trends in BMI values are estimated by centiles of the US adult population by birth cohorts 1886-1986 stratified by … merely 1 to 3 units. Hence, the BMI distribution became increasingly right skewed as the distance between the centiles became … increasingly larger. The rate of change of BMI centile curves varied considerably over time. The BMI of white men and women …
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Background: The trend in the BMI values of the US population has not been estimated accurately because time series data … change of BMI values by birth cohorts stratified by gender and ethnicity born 1882-1986. Methods: We use loess additive … regression models to estimate age and trend effects of BMI values of US-born black and white adults measured between 1959 and …
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Although the rise in obesity and overweight is related to time constraints influencing health investments (e … the causal effect of a change in working times on overweight and obesity drawing from evidence from a national policy (the …. Our results show evidence of 8 percential points increase in the probability of overweight among blue collar workers when …
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Although lower income is associated with overweight (and obesity), such an association is explained by a number of … other confounding effects such as omitted variables (e.g., time preferences) explaining that income effect on overweight. We … study the effect of unearned income shocks resulting from a lottery win (windfall income) on both overweight (alongside …
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children's health. We find that access to insurance reduces childhood obesity and exerts positive and economically significant …
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results indicate that exposure to these establishments during childhood and adolescence increases BMI and has negative effects … those with adverse prenatal health or high paternal BMI, an exception being that cognition is only affected by exposure at …
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When traditional measures for health and economic welfare are scarce or unreliable, height and the body mass index (BMI …
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Little research exists on the historical relationship between BMI variation, wealth, and inequality. This study finds … BMIs and average state-level wealth, and an inverse relationship between BMI and wealth inequality. After controlling for … wealth and inequality, rural agricultural farmers had greater BMI values than their urban counterparts in other occupations. …
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We examine the vertical transmission of overweight drawing upon a sample of English children, both adopted and non …-adopted, and their families. Our results suggest strong evidence of an intergenerational association of overweight among adoptees …, indicating transmission through cultural factors. We find that, when both adoptive parents are overweight, the likelihood of an …
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In migration studies, immigrant health is a concern before, during, and after migration. This study uses a large late 19th and early 20th century data set of over 20 US prisons to assess migrant net nutrition. Native-born individuals were taller and had the lowest BMIs. International immigrants...
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