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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 …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003951534
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008469943
overweight or obesity. Logit equation results identify low income, low education, household location and preference for …Using data from urban Korean women survey the study examines factors associated with the BMI >= 25, indicating … convenience, sweet-tasting foods and home vegetable processing as characteristics linked to a high BMI. …
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13 villages during five consecutive years (2002–2006). We used three indicators to measure obesity: body-mass index (BMI …This paper examines three morphological indicators measuring obesity among a native Amazonian population of foragers …-farmers in Bolivia (Tsimane’) and estimates the associations between them and standard covariates of obesity (e.g., socioeconomic …
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factors (1) higher income is positively related to future growth of individuals’ BMI in less developed areas (i.e. BMI growth … BMI growth in more developed areas (i.e. BMI growth is 0.8–1.6 percentage points lower for the richest individuals), and … (2) that concentrations of overweight are “trickling down” to lower income ranks as regions become more developed …
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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 …
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This paper aims at opening the black box of peer effects in adolescent weight gain. Using Add Health data on secondary schools in the U.S., we investigate whether these partly flow through the eating habits channel. Adolescents are assumed to interact through a friendship social network. We...
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Many low income countries are experiencing a “nutrition transition” towards the consumption of more energy-dense, highly processed foods and beverages that are often high in caloric sweeteners, fat and salt. Changing lifestyles and urbanisation have coincided with a ‘retail revolution’,...
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