Prevalence of overweight and obesity among US children, adolescents, and adults, 1999-2002.

By Allison A. Hedley, Cynthia L Ogden, Clifford L. Johnson, M. Carroll, L. Curtin, K. Flegal. Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 2004

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Beyond BMI: the value of more accurate measures of fatness and obesity in social science research. (2008, neutral): “The health impact of fatness is particularly troubling because the average weight of Americans has risen considerably in the past few decades (Hedley et al., 2004; Ogden et al., 2006).”
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Prevalence and trends in obesity among US adults, 1999-2008. (2010, methodology): “Analyses of data from 2001-2002 and 2003-2004 suggested increasing trends since 19992000 among men but not among women.(4,5) Comparisons between 20032004 and 2005-2006 showed no significant changes but had limited statistical power.”