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

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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

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  • Yan Yu, 2018. "Cohort trends in duration of obesity in the United States, 1925–89: Estimates from cross-sectional data," Population Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 72(3), pages 399-410, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rpstxx:v:72:y:2018:i:3:p:399-410
    DOI: 10.1080/00324728.2018.1467032
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