Stable behaviors associated with adults' 10-year change in body mass index and likelihood of gain at the waist

• Published in: American journal of public health (1971) Vol. 87; no. 5; pp. 747 - 754
• Main Authors: Kahn, H S, Tatham, L M, Rodriguez, C, Calle, E E, Thun, M J, Heath, C W, Jr
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Washington, DC Am Public Health Assoc 01.05.1997; American Public Health Association
• Subjects: Adult; Adults; Age; Air. Soil. Water. Waste. Feeding; Alcohol Drinking; Bats; Beer; Behavior; Biological and medical sciences; Body Constitution; Body fat; Body Mass Index; Cancer; Cigarettes; Diabetes; Diet; Disease prevention; Environment. Living conditions; Estrogens; Exercise; Factors; Female; Follow-Up Studies; Food; Health behaviour; Health care; Humans; Life Style; Linear Models; Liquor; Logistic Models; Male; Marital status; Meat; Medical sciences; Nutrition research; Nutrition Surveys; Obesity; Odds Ratio; Overweight; Physical Exertion; Physical fitness; Public health; Public health. Hygiene; Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine; Questionnaires; Relationship; Retrospective Studies; Risk Factors; Sex Factors; Smoking; Surveys and Questionnaires; Vegetables; Vitamin E; Vitamin E - administration & dosage; Waist; Weight; Weight control; Weight Gain; Weights & measures; Womens health; United States; North America; America; Human; Physical exercise; Perimeter; Questionnaire; Poison withdrawal; Tobacco smoking; Epidemiology; Feeding; Alcoholic beverage; Body mass index; Health and environment; Diet; Cohort study; Abdominal wall; Adult; Evolution; Behavior; Public health

The purpose of this study was to identify behaviors associated with change in body mass index or with weight gain at the waist. A cohort of 79236 White, non-Hispanic, healthy adults was questioned in 1982 and 1992 about diet and 10 physical activities. Estimates were made of the mean effects of stab...