Background Obesity is suggested to underlie development of other metabolic aberrations,
but longitudinal relationships between metabolic factors at various ages has not been …

OBJECTIVE: To study the changes in body mass index (BMI) in a population-based cohort
and their relationship with sociodemographic variables in a Mediterranean-country …

We investigated changes in the prevalence of obesity among Finnish adults (aged≥ 30
years) during a 20‐year period. Data were derived from two cross‐sectional nationally …

Objective: The number of overweight and obese persons increased through the 1980s and
1990s in Sweden, for instance for men from 35% in 1980 to 52% in 2007. This study …

Background In many high income developed countries, obesity is inversely associated with
educational level. In some countries, a widening gap of obesity between educational groups …

Background The initiation of the Canadian Multicentre Osteoporosis Study in 1996, and
subsequent follow-up of the cohort 5 years later, provided longitudinal body mass index …

The prevalence of obesity presents serious public health challenges worldwide and is most
commonly estimated by the categorization of body mass index (BMI). The purpose of this …

The study objective was to evaluate the incidence of overweight and obesity in two rural
areas of Sweden and the US Previously collected data were used from 1990 to 1999 …

Objectives: On account of the increasing worldwide problems associated with overweight
and obesity, the aim of the present study was to examine BMI change over 5 years in …

Chronic health problems may be related to body mass index (BMI, kg/m 2), but this has been
best documented in overweight and obese adults. The primary objective of this study was to …