Will all Americans become overweight or obese? Estimating the progression and cost of the US obesity epidemic

Obesity

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2323-2330

  Wang, Youfa ^a   Beydoun, May A ^a   Liang, Lan ^b   Caballero, Benjamin ^a   Kumanyika, Shiriki K ^c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b AGENCY FOR HEALTHCARE RESEARCH AND QUALITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; COST; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ECONOMICS; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SURVEY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MALE; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS; TIME; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE FACTORS; BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH SURVEYS; HEALTHY PEOPLE PROGRAMS; HUMANS; MALE; MEXICAN AMERICANS; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; PREVALENCE; SEX FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 53849092685     PISSN: 19307381     EISSN: 1930739X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/oby.2008.351     Document Type: Article

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