-2017 to analyze the relationships between various socio-demographic variables and adult Body Mass Index (BMI) in Suriname. Our … overweight. As expected, this is also true for individuals who have chronic illnesses. The analysis also finds that individuals … who engage in a sport or in other forms of exercise, even if modest, have lower odds of being overweight or obese …

Background: The trend in the BMI values of US children has not been estimated very convincingly because of the absence … of longitudinal data. Our object is to estimate time series of BMI values by birth cohorts instead of measurement years …. Methods: We use five regression models to estimate the BMI trends of non-Hispanic US-born black and white children and …

considered in the literature on the effects of obesity. Interestingly enough, we find that BMI does not discriminate young … workers with the purpose of analysing the relationship between measures of obesity and measures of economic performance. Among …