Obesity Epidemiology
Research on obesity epidemiology described by scientists at University College
Published in Women's Health Weekly, October 30th, 2008
Researchers detail in 'Lower fertility associated with obesity and underweight: the US National Longitudinal Survey of Youth,' new data in obesity. "It has been hypothesized that body weight predicts the number of children that a person will have: obese and underweight persons are hypothesized to have fewer children than do their normal-weight counterparts. We aimed to prospectively examine the association between body weight in young adulthood and achieved fertility in later life," scientists in London, the United Kingdom report.
"A representative national sample of 12 073 American young adults (aged 17-24 y in 1981) were followed through 2004 (19 survey waves of the...
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