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 …

-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 …

overweight, and the negative link between education and BMI is up to now out of questioning. More educated adults tend to have … lower body mass index (BMI) and a lower risk of overweight and obesity. However, recent literature started questioning the … mechanism behind this education gradient in BMI. A more recent and alternative explanation is that the BMI-education gradient …

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 …

considered in the literature on the effects of obesity. Interestingly enough, we find that BMI does not discriminate young …

distribution as the economy has grown. Is BMI growth different at different tails of the income distribution? Health and … income gradient of individual body weight growth (i.e. the relationship between income and BMI growth) follows an inverted U … could not find clear evidence that the income-BMI-growth gradient has already shifted. Turning points have not yet been …