On the joint role of non-Hispanic Black race/ethnicity and weight status in predicting postmenopausal weight gain.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To determine how baseline weight status contributes to differences in postmenopausal weight gain among non-Hispanic Blacks (NHBs) and non-Hispanic Whites (NHWs).

Methods

Data were included from 70,750 NHW and NHB postmenopausal women from the Women's Health Initiative Observational Study (WHI OS). Body Mass Index (BMI) at baseline was used to classify women as having normal weight, overweight, obese class I, obese class II or obese class III. Cox proportional hazards was used to estimate the hazard of a 10% or more increase in weight from baseline.

Results

In both crude and adjusted models, NHBs were more likely to experience ≥10% weight gain than NHWs within the same category of baseline weight status. Moreover, NHBs who were normal weight at baseline were

SUBMITTER: Ford CN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7920337 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature