Obesity Incidence in U.S. Children and Young Adults: A Pooled Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Obesity prevalence among children and adolescents has risen sharply, yet there is a limited understanding of the age-specific dynamics of obesity as there is no single nationally representative cohort following children into young adulthood. Investigators constructed a pooled data set of 5 nationally representative panels and modeled age-specific obesity incidence from childhood into young adulthood.

Methods

This longitudinal prospective follow-up used 718,560 person-years of observation in a pooled data set of 5 high-quality nationally representative panels-National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 and 1997, National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, and Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten cohorts of 1998 and 2011-constructed by the authors,

SUBMITTER: Rafei A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9232860 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature