Determining Lifestyle Correlates of Body Mass Index using Multilevel Analyses: The Tromso Study, 1979-2001

• Published in: American Journal of Epidemiology
• Main Authors: Wilsgaard, Tom, Jacobsen, Bjarne K., Arnesen, Egil
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 2005
• Subjects: ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTIONS; Norway; Tromso; Tromsø
• Online Access: http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/162/12/1179; https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwi328

Increases in overweight and obesity have been observed globally in both developed and developing countries. The authors assessed the relation between lifestyle factors and body mass index (BMI) (weight (kg)/height (m)2) in a population-based longitudinal study, using BMI and its subsequent change as...