Obesity is significantly more prevalent among non-Hispanic African-American (henceforth "black") women than among non …]Hispanic white American (henceforth gwhiteh) women. These differences have persisted without much alteration since the early 1970s … and in obesity prevalence between black women and white women do not narrow substantially after controlling for …

-white BMI gap (or obesity gap) among women. These unadjusted estimates echo previous findings from large survey datasets such as … share of the BMI gap (and the obesity gap) between black women and white women and are consistent with the presence of much …