Characterizing long-term patterns of weight change in China using latent class trajectory modeling.

Over the past three decades, obesity-related diseases have increased tremendously in China, and are now the leading causes of morbidity and mortality. Patterns of weight change can be used to predict risk of obesity-related diseases, increase understanding of etiology of disease risk, identify group...

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Main Authors: Lauren Paynter, Elizabeth Koehler, Annie Green Howard, Amy H Herring, Penny Gordon-Larsen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4336139?pdf=render