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Title: A Simplified Equation for Adult BMI Growth, and Its Use to Adjust BMI for Age
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von Hippel, Paul Lynch, Jamie L. |
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A Simplified Equation for Adult BMI Growth, and Its Use to Adjust BMI for Age International Journal of Epidemiology 41,3 (June 2012): 888-890. Also: http://ije.oxfordjournals.org/content/41/3/888 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Oxford University Press Keyword(s): Body Mass Index (BMI); Epidemiology; Growth Curves Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Although standards for children’s growth in body mass index (BMI) are widely used,standards for BMI growth in adulthood are less developed. A year ago in this journal, Østbye et al. made an important contribution to the study of adult BMI growth by describing the average BMI growth curves for four latent groups of US adults followed from the age of 18 to 49 years in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1979 cohort (NLSY79). Participants in the NLSY79 were born between 1957 and 1965. In this letter, we show that the average growth curves of all four groups can be summarized using one equation with a single parameter. We then use that equation to put the BMIs of adults measured at different ages on a common, age-adjusted scale. Finally, we illustrate how age-adjusted BMIs can be used in epidemiology. |
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von Hippel, Paul and Jamie L. Lynch. "A Simplified Equation for Adult BMI Growth, and Its Use to Adjust BMI for Age." International Journal of Epidemiology 41,3 (June 2012): 888-890.
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