Propagation of Obesity across Generations: The Roles of Differential Realized Fertility and Assortative Mating by Body Mass Index | Zendy

John Dawson | Zendy; Emily J. Dhurandhar | Zendy; Ana I. Vázquez | Zendy; Bo Peng | Zendy; David B. Allison | Zendy

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Propagation of Obesity across Generations: The Roles of Differential Realized Fertility and Assortative Mating by Body Mass Index

Author(s) -

John Dawson,

Emily J. Dhurandhar,

Ana I. Vázquez,

Bo Peng,

David B. Allison

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

human heredity

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.423

H-Index - 62

eISSN - 1423-0062

pISSN - 0001-5652

DOI - 10.1159/000352007

Subject(s) - offspring , body mass index , assortative mating , demography , fertility , national longitudinal surveys , obesity , population , biology , medicine , endocrinology , pregnancy , statistics , genetics , mathematics , sociology

To quantify the extent to which the increase in obesity observed across recent generations of the American population is associated with the individual or combined effects of assortative mating (AM) for body mass index (BMI) and differential realized fertility by BMI.

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