IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/aph/ajpbhl/1991813319-323_7.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Race and weight change in US women: The roles of socioeconomic and marital status

Author

Listed:
  • Kahn, H.S.
  • Williamson, D.F.
  • Stevens, J.A.

Abstract

Background. The prevalence of overweight among Black women in the US is higher than among White women, but the causes are unknown. Methods. We examined the weight change for 514 Black and 2,770 White women who entered the first Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (1971-75) at ages 25-44 years and were weighted again a decade later. We used multivariate analyses to estimate the weight-change effects associated with race, family income, education, and marital change. Results. The mean weight change was greater for the Black women than the White women. Adjustments for height, duration of follow-up, baseline body mass index, and multiple demographic, social, and behavioral variables did not reduce this mean Black-White difference. Conclusions. Among US women, Black race is independently associated with a reduced likelihood of major weight loss, but not with major weight gain. Women at greatest risk of weight gain are those with education below college level, those entering marriage, and those with very low family income.

Suggested Citation

  • Kahn, H.S. & Williamson, D.F. & Stevens, J.A., 1991. "Race and weight change in US women: The roles of socioeconomic and marital status," American Journal of Public Health, American Public Health Association, vol. 81(3), pages 319-323.
    • Handle: RePEc:aph:ajpbhl:1991:81:3:319-323_7
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Temesgen Kifle & Isaac Desta, 2012. "The relationship between body mass index and socioeconomic and demographic indicators: evidence from Australia," International Journal of Public Health, Springer;Swiss School of Public Health (SSPH+), vol. 57(1), pages 135-142, February.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:aph:ajpbhl:1991:81:3:319-323_7. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Christopher F Baum (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.apha.org .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.