When traditional measures for health and economic welfare are scarce or unreliable, height and the body mass index (BMI …

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 …

Although lower income is associated with overweight (and obesity), such an association is explained by a number of … obesity and body mass index) distribution. We draw upon longitudinal data from the United Kingdom, a country where about half …

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 …

regression models to estimate age and trend effects of BMI values of US-born black and white adults measured between 1959 and …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 …