Mean body weight, height, and body mass index, United States 1960-2002.
By Cynthia L Ogden, C. Fryar, M. Carroll, K. Flegal. Advance data, 2004
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- Shoulder Height, Body Mass, and Shape of Proboscideans (2015, background): “The average height of today’s male humans in good conditions is about 180 cm (Ogden et al. 2004; Garcia and Quintana-Domeque 2007; Hatton and Bray 2010).”
- Guidelines of care for the management of psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis: Section 1. Overview of psoriasis and guidelines of care for the treatment of psoriasis with biologics. (2008, background): “Furthermore, the average weights of patients with psoriasis in the large clinical trials of the biologic agents havebeen in the90- to95-kg range(44-47) (although these clinical trials all enrolled more men than women) whereas the average body weight for the US population from the NHANES database fro”
- Body Size Stereotyping and Internalization of the Thin Ideal in Preschool Girls (2010, background): “If we consider that the average weight of girls and adult women in the United States is increasing (Ogden et al. 2004), internalization of the thin ideal may become even more detrimental to girls and women.”
- Trends over 5 Decades in U.S. Occupation-Related Physical Activity and Their Associations with Obesity (2011, background): “Mean body weight for the 1960–62, 1971–74, 1976–80, 1988–94, 1999–2002 and 2003–2006 NHANES surveys for the 40–50 year old age group were examined by gender [9,10].”
- Ten Putative Contributors to the Obesity Epidemic (2009, unknown): “They estimated that the average BMI among adult men and women in the United States have increased from about 25 in 1960 to 28 in 2002 (Ogden et al., 2004).”
- Biological maturation of youth athletes: assessment and implications (2015, background): “youth have not changed appreciably since the 1960s,[83, 84] while evidence for change in age at menarche is equivocal.”