Abstract Background: Young adult women (18–36 years) are gaining weight at rates higher
than women in other age groups. Given its long-term deleterious health effects, it is …

Purpose It is unclear what kind of modifiable lifestyle factors are associated with long-time
weight gain in adulthood. To clarify the lifestyle behavior related to body weight gain since …

Results: Controlling for a number of sociodemographic and lifestyle factors in the female
sample, daughters had 5.04 (3.03, 8.85) times the odds of being obese and 2.54 (1.86, 3.54) …

Background Little is known about the interaction between gender and low birth weight
(LBW) and lifelong social mobility as an explanation of the etiology of obesity. The aim of the …

Policy Points: Despite beliefs that baby boomers are healthier than previous generations, we
found no evidence that the health of baby boomers is substantially different from that of the …

Background The association between obesity in adults and excess morbidity and mortality is
well established, but the health impact throughout adult life of being obese in early …

OBJECTIVES: To assess changes in overweight and obesity between adolescence and
young adulthood. DESIGN: Prospective 8-wave cohort study in Victoria, Australia, with 1,520 …

Objectives Socioeconomic status (SES) is among the strongest determinants of body mass
index (BMI), particularly for women. For older populations, selection bias due to attrition is a …

Background While childhood social risk factors appear to be associated with adult obesity, it
is unclear whether exposure to multiple childhood social risk factors is associated with …

Mounting evidence finds that adult health reflects socioeconomic circumstances (SES) in
early life and adulthood. However, it is unclear how the health consequences of SES in early …