Educational attainment is an important social determinant of maternal, newborn, and child
health,–. As a tool for promoting gender equity, it has gained increasing traction in popular …

We use panel data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) to examine how
body weight changes with age for a cohort moving through early adulthood, to investigate …

Results: Four trajectories were identified: two separate trajectories where BMI remains within
a normal range (85% of the sample), an overweight trajectory (14.4%), and an obese …

Socioeconomic inequalities in body weight have been demonstrated in numerous cross‐
sectional studies; however, little research has investigated these inequalities from a life …

Childhood obesity has a strong social gradient. This scoping review aims to synthesize the
evidence on the impact on inequalities of non‐targeted interventions to reduce the …

Introduction In low-and middle-income countries (LMICs), the probability of dying in
childhood is strongly related to the socio-economic position of the parents or household in …

No research exists on how body mass index (BMI) changes with age over the full life span
and social disparities therein. This study aims to fill the gap using an innovative life-course …

Background Women of low socio-economic status (SES) give birth to lighter babies. It is
unknown from which moment during pregnancy socio-economic differences in fetal weight …

Solving Population-wide Obesity n engl j med 383; 23 nejm. org December 3, 2020 fast
Programs and foods sold separately from school meals (which were later incorporated into …

Objectives: The prevalence of childhood overweight in the United States has markedly
increased over the last 30 years. We examined differences in the secular trends for BMI …