25-year weight gain in a racially balanced sample of U.S. adults: The CARDIA study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine 25-year trends in weight gain, partitioned by time-related and aging-related changes, during early and middle adulthood.

Methods

Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA), a prospective, non-nationally representative cohort study conducted at four urban field centers that began in 1985 to 1986 with 5,109 Black (B) and White (W) men (M) and women (W) aged 18 to 30 years, has followed participants for 25 years (aged 43-55 years in 2010-2011). Time-related and aging-related components of weight change were estimated to construct longitudinal models of linear and nonlinear trends.

Results

There were nonlinear trends in time-related weight gain in W, with larger weight gains early that attenuated at subsequent exams. Time-related trends

SUBMITTER: Dutton GR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5004783 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature