Open AccessTrends in group inequalities and interindividual inequalities in BMI in the United States, 1993–2012
Author(s) -
Aditi Krishna,
Fahad Razak,
Alexandre Lebel,
George Davey Smith,
S. V. Subramanian
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
american journal of clinical nutrition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.608
H-Index - 336
eISSN - 1938-3207
pISSN - 0002-9165
DOI - 10.3945/ajcn.114.100073
Subject(s) - percentile , demography , body mass index , overweight , medicine , obesity , population , gerontology , statistics , mathematics , environmental health , sociology
Marked increases in mean body mass index (BMI) and prevalence of obesity and overweight in the United States are well known. However, whether these average increases were accompanied by changing dispersion (or SD) remains understudied.
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