Cohort trends in duration of obesity in the United States, 1925–89: Estimates from cross-sectional data

Yan Yu

Population Studies, 2018, vol. 72, issue 3, 399-410

Abstract: This paper introduces the metric ‘mean duration of obesity’ to measure the average number of years lived with obesity in a population. A procedure was developed to estimate duration from periodic cross-sectional surveys. For annual cohorts born in the United States between 1925 and 1989, I estimated a logit model to derive age-cohort-specific probabilities of overweight and obesity (body mass index 25 to

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1080/00324728.2018.1467032

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