Bigger bodies: long-term trends and disparities in obesity and body-mass index among U.S. adults, 1960-2008

Social Science & Medicine
Asa Ljungvall, Frederick J Zimmerman

Abstract

Increasing obesity rates and corresponding public health problems are well-known, and disparities across socioeconomic groups are frequently reported. However, the literature is less clear on whether the increasing trends are specific to certain socioeconomic groups and whether disparities in obesity are increasing or decreasing over time. This knowledge sheds light on the understanding of the driving forces to the ongoing worldwide increases in obesity and body-mass index and gives guidance to plausible interventions aiming at reverting weights back to healthy levels. The purpose of this study is to explore long-term time trends and socioeconomic disparities in body-mass index and obesity among U.S. adults. Individual level data from ten cycles of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey between 1960 and 2008 are used to estimate adjusted time trends in the probabilities of obesity and severe obesity and in measured body-mass index for three racial/ethnical groups, for three educational groups, and for four levels of income, stratified by gender. Time trends in the probabilities of obesity and severe obesity are estimated by linear probability models, and trends at the 15th, 50th and 85th percentiles of the adjuste...Continue Reading

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