Objectives No studies have focused on socioeconomic disparities in obesity within and
between cohorts. Our objectives were to examine income gradients in obesity between birth …

Objective As overall spread of obesity in populations is generally acknowledged to result
from unhealthy lifestyles rather than individual genetic makeup, this study aimed to gain …

Background Becoming unemployed is associated with poorer health, including weight gain.
Middle-and older-age adults are a growing segment of workforces globally, but they are also …

This study examined weight status during adolescence and young adulthood, and young
adult health condition diagnosis. Data are from 10,439 African‐American, Hispanic, and …

Background: Obesity prevalence stabilized in the US in the first decade of the 2000s.
However, obesity prevalence may resume increasing if younger generations are more …

Aims. Development of obesity is modified by several factors, including socioeconomic ones.
We studied the importance of socioeconomic indicators on the development of obesity from …

Longitudinal data are necessary to reveal changes within an individual as he or she ages.
However, rarely will a single cohort study capture data throughout a person's entire life span …

The aim was to investigate whether the combined work-family life courses of British men and
women were associated with differences in metabolic markers—waist circumference, blood …

We propose a model for obesity development that traces a considerable part of its origins to
the social domain (mainly different forms of prolonged social adversity), both within and …

Objective: The elevated prevalence of obesity among US blacks has been attributed to low
socioeconomic position (SEP), despite inconsistent empirical findings. It is unclear whether …