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Scott Latham; Jenna E. Finch; Sean Reardon; Jane Waldfogel – Grantee Submission, 2021
Research shows that population-level rates of obesity, which rose dramatically from the 1970s through the mid-2000s, have since plateaued or even started to decline. However, overall improvements may mask differences in trends for different subgroups. For instance, obesity rates have continued to climb among low-income adolescents, leading to…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Obesity, Low Income Students, Correlation
Shin, Yongyun; Sun, Shumei S.; Bandyopadhyay, Dipankar – Grantee Submission, 2020
We analyze adolescent BMI and middle-age systolic blood pressure (SBP) repeatedly measured on women enrolled in the Fels longitudinal study (FLS) between 1929 and 2010 to address three questions: Do adolescent-specific growth rates in BMI and menarche affect middle-age SBP? Do they moderate the aging effect on middle-age SBP? Have the effects…
Descriptors: Obesity, Adolescents, Adults, Females