Who is trying to lose weight? Trends and prevalence in past-year weight loss attempts among US adults 1999-2018 at the intersection of race/ethnicity, gender, and weight status.

ABSTRACT: Common stereotypes of those who desire or attempt to lose weight often center on the experience of White, thin women. However, prior studies have neglected how systems of oppression at intersection of race/ethnicity, gender, and weight status may interact to place certain subpopulations at elevated risk. Repeated cross-sectional data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 1999-2018 (n = 53,528), a population-representative sample of US adults, were used to 1) assess trends in past-year weight loss attempts using the Kendall-Mann trend test stratifying by race/ethnicity, gender, and weight status, and 2) estimate the adjusted prevalence of weight loss attempts over the combined 20-year period for combinations of race/ethnicity, gender, and weight status using log

SUBMITTER: Zhong Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9973002 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature