Increasing Trends in Incidence of Overweight and Obesity over 5 Decades Nisha I. Parikh, MD, MPH, Michael J. Pencina, PhD, Thomas J. Wang, MD, Katherine J. Lanier, BS, Caroline S. Fox, MD, Ralph B. D’Agostino, PhD, Ramachandran S. Vasan, MD The American Journal of Medicine Volume 120, Issue 3, Pages 242-250.e2 (March 2007) DOI: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2006.06.004 Copyright © 2007 Elsevier Inc. Terms and Conditions
Figure Baseline and follow-up examination years for the original and offspring cohorts of the Framingham Study that were used for determining the prevalence and the incidence of obesity by decade of observation (from 1950s to 2000s); ni and np indicate the numbers of individuals between ages 40 and 55 years available in each of the decades for the calculations of prevalence and incidence rates. The American Journal of Medicine 2007 120, 242-250.e2DOI: (10.1016/j.amjmed.2006.06.004) Copyright © 2007 Elsevier Inc. Terms and Conditions