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dc.contributor.authorKomlos, Johnen
dc.contributor.authorBrabec, Mareken
dc.date.accessioned2010-08-16-
dc.date.accessioned2010-08-18T11:17:36Z-
dc.date.available2010-08-18T11:17:36Z-
dc.date.issued2010-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/38885-
dc.description.abstractTrends in BMI values are estimated by centiles of the US adult population by birth cohorts 1886-1986 stratified by ethnicity. The highest centile increased by some 18 to 22 units in the course of the century while the lowest ones increased by merely 1 to 3 units. Hence, the BMI distribution became increasingly right skewed as the distance between the centiles became increasingly larger. The rate of change of BMI centile curves varied considerably over time. The BMI of white men and women experienced upsurges after the two World Wars and downswings during the Great Depression and again after 1970. However, among blacks the pattern is different during the first half of the century with men's rate of increase in BMI values decreasing substantially and that of females remaining unchanged at a relatively high level until the Second World War. However, after the war the rate of change of BMI values of blacks resembled that of the whites with an accelerating phase followed by a slow down around the 1970s. In sum, the creeping nature of the obesity epidemic is evident, as the technological and lifestyle changes of the 20th century affected various segments of the population quite differently.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aCenter for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo) |cMunichen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aCESifo Working Paper |x3132en
dc.subject.jelI10en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordBMIen
dc.subject.keywordUSen
dc.subject.keywordNHANESen
dc.subject.keywordobesityen
dc.subject.keywordoverweighten
dc.subject.keywordsemiparametric modellingen
dc.subject.keywordGAMLSS modelen
dc.subject.keywordpercentile estimationen
dc.subject.stwGesundheiten
dc.subject.stwÜbergewichten
dc.subject.stwGeschichteen
dc.subject.stwIndustrialisierungen
dc.subject.stwUSAen
dc.titleThe trend of BMI values by centiles of US adults, birth cohorts 1882 - 1986-
dc.typeWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn633112313en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen

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