Bigger bodies: Long-term trends and disparities in obesity and body-mass index among U.S. adults, 1960–2008
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Body-mass index; Obesity; Severe obesity; Time trends; Quantile regression; Linear probability model; Socioeconomic disparity; USA;All these keywords.
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