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dc.contributor.authorSperrin, Matthew
dc.contributor.authorMarshall, Alan David
dc.contributor.authorHiggins, Vanessa
dc.contributor.authorRenehan, Andrew
dc.contributor.authorBuchan, Iain E.
dc.date.accessioned2016-02-15T13:10:15Z
dc.date.available2016-02-15T13:10:15Z
dc.date.issued2016-09-17
dc.identifier209452680
dc.identifier343e323c-c673-43ea-a03a-1fb1d135dff8
dc.identifier84996551475
dc.identifier.citationSperrin , M , Marshall , A D , Higgins , V , Renehan , A & Buchan , I E 2016 , ' Body mass index relates weight to height differently in women and older adults : serial cross-sectional surveys in England (1992–2011) ' , Journal of Public Health , vol. 38 , no. 3 , pp. 607-613 . https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdv067en
dc.identifier.issn1741-3842
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/8231
dc.descriptionThis study was partly supported by the University of Manchester’s Health eResearch Centre (HeRC) funded by the Medical Research Council (MRC) Grant MR/K006665/1 and partly funded by the ESRC Obesity eLab Grant (RES-149-25-1076).en
dc.description.abstractBackground Body mass index (BMI) tends to be higher among shorter adults, especially women. The dependence of BMI–height correlation on age and calendar time may inform us about temporal determinants of BMI. Methods Series of cross-sectional surveys: Health Survey for England, 1992–2011. We study the Benn Index, which is the coefficient in a regression of log(weight) on log(height). This is adjusted for age, gender and calendar time, allowing for non-linear terms and interactions. Results By height quartile, mean BMI decreased with increasing height, more so in women than in men (P < 0.001). The decrease in mean BMI in the tallest compared with the shortest height quartile was 0.77 in men (95% CI 0.69, 0.86) and 1.98 in women (95% CI 1.89, 2.08). Regression analysis of log(weight) on log(height) revealed that the inverse association between BMI and height was more pronounced in older adults and stronger in women than in men, with little change over calendar time. Conclusions Unlike early childhood, where taller children tend to have higher BMI, adults, especially women and older people, show an inverse BMI–height association. BMI is a heterogeneous measure of weight-for-height; height may be an important and complex determinant of BMI trajectory over the life course.
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dc.format.extent205115
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of Public Healthen
dc.subjectAdiposityen
dc.subjectBody heighten
dc.subjectBody mass indexen
dc.subjectBody weighten
dc.subjectHealth survey for Englanden
dc.subjectStatureen
dc.subjectWeight for heighten
dc.subjectRA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicineen
dc.subjectGF Human ecology. Anthropogeographyen
dc.subject3rd-DASen
dc.subjectSDG 3 - Good Health and Well-beingen
dc.subject.lccRA0421en
dc.subject.lccGFen
dc.titleBody mass index relates weight to height differently in women and older adults : serial cross-sectional surveys in England (1992–2011)en
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Geography & Sustainable Developmenten
dc.identifier.doi10.1093/pubmed/fdv067
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden


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