Ideal Weight and Weight Discrepancy: A Study of Life Course Trajectories and Intercohort Change in the Netherlands.

ABSTRACT: Objective: This study examined how individuals' ideal weight and weight discrepancy (between ideal and actual weight) changed over the life course and across cohorts. Methods: The study used population-representative longitudinal data collected in the Netherlands (N = 61,431 observations between 2007 and 2018 among N = 13,409 individuals aged 16 to 80 and born 1927-2000). Results: Ideal weight increased linearly with age. Weight discrepancy showed a bell-shaped age pattern. Approximately half of the age-related increase in ideal weight was associated with concurrent increases in actual weight. Ideal weight and weight discrepancy increased slightly across cohorts. The cohort-related increase in ideal weight vanished after adjusting for change in actual wei

SUBMITTER: Leopold L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10880023 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature