Seven-year trends in body weight and associations with lifestyle and behavioral characteristics in black and white young adults: the CARDIA study.
Author(s) -
Cora E. Lewis,
D. E. Smith,
Dennis Wallace,
O. Dale Williams,
Diane E. Bild,
David R. Jacobs
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284
H-Index - 264
eISSN - 1541-0048
pISSN - 0090-0036
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.87.4.635
Subject(s) - overweight , demography , medicine , weight gain , obesity , gerontology , population , body mass index , weight change , body weight , prospective cohort study , secular variation , cohort study , cohort , weight loss , endocrinology , sociology
This study estimated the amount of weight change in a biracial cohort of young adults and the separate components attributable to time-related and aging-related changes, as well as identified possible determinants of weight change.
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