-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 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 …