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- Title
Change in Percentages of Adults With Overweight or Obesity Trying to Lose Weight, 1988-2014.
- Authors
Snook, Kassandra R.; Hansen, Andrew R.; Duke, Carmen H.; Finch, Kathryn C.; Hackney, Amy A.; Jian Zhang; Zhang, Jian
- Abstract
The article presents a study which examined the number of overweight or obese adults in the U.S. who want to lose weight from 1988 to 2014. Also cited are data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) that were used in the study, the high prevalence of obesity among African American women, and the use of the modified Poisson regression method to calculate percentage ratios.
- Publication
JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, 2017, Vol 317, Issue 9, p971
- ISSN
0098-7484
- Publication type
letter
- DOI
10.1001/jama.2016.20036