Context: Over the past few decades, obesity has reached epidemic proportions, and is a major contributor to the global … burden of chronic diseases and disability. There is little evidence on obesity related co-morbidities in BRICS countries …. Objectives: The first objective is to examine the factors associated with overweight and obesity in four of the five BRICS …

selection would be people who remain in the country of origin. Obesity represents an important health outcome that may be best … differences in obesity-related health selection, by gender, in 2000 and 2012. We calculated prevalence ratios from log …-binomial models to compare the risk of obesity among recent immigrants to the US to Mexican nationals with varying likelihood of …

This paper investigates the relationship between family income and childhood obesity. Using the Early Childhood … Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998-99 (ECLS-K), I report three new findings. First, family income and childhood obesity …-BMI children. Third, the difference in obesity rates between children from low- and high-income families increases as children age …

We investigate the association between obesity and use of prescribed medications in England. Data were taken from … therapeutic classifications in the British National Formulary, and nurse-measured height and weight. We find that obesity has a … statistically significant and positive association with use of a range of medicines for managing diseases associated with obesity …

Using data from the National Income Dynamics Study, we document differentials in both underweight and obesity across … across gender within race and then across race within gender. Less than one third of the differences in obesity and … underweight across gender are explained by differences in covariates. In contrast, at least 70% of the obesity differences across …

actually causes obesity. In this paper, we use data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent Health to test whether … is no causal relationship between credit card debt and overweight or obesity for either men or women. However, we find … suggestive evidence that having trouble paying bills may be a cause of obesity for women. …

This study investigates how rising obesity has affected eligibility to serve in the United States Public Health Service …

percent of the obesity wage gap. While contemporaneous wage penalties for body weight are small, the cost over the life cycle …