
Food pattern analysis over time: unhealthful eating trajectories predict obesity
Author(s) -
Mark C. Pachucki
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
international journal of obesity
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.663
H-Index - 225
eISSN - 1476-5497
pISSN - 0307-0565
DOI - 10.1038/ijo.2011.133
Subject(s) - overweight , body mass index , medicine , confounding , obesity , confidence interval , demography , cohort study , cohort , prospective cohort study , sociology
Analysis of dietary patterns is prominent in nutrition literatures, yet few studies have taken advantage of multiple repeated measurements to understand the nature of individual-level changes over time in food choice, or the relation between these changes and body mass index (BMI).