Population trends and variation in body mass index from 1971 to 2008 in the Framingham Heart Study Offspring Cohort.

Population trends and variation in body mass index from 1971 to 2008 in the Framingham Heart Study Offspring Cohort.

We examined body mass index (BMI) across place and time to determine the pattern of BMI mean and standard deviation trajectories.We included participants in the Framingham Heart Study (FHS) Offspring Cohort over eight waves of follow-up, from 1971 to 2008. After exclusions, the final sample size was...

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Main Authors: Jason P Block, S V Subramanian, Nicholas A Christakis, A James O'Malley
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3651246?pdf=render

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