Evolution of obesity prevalence in France: an age-period-cohort analysis.

Ibrahima Diouf (1) , Marie Aline Charles (1) , Pierre Ducimetière (1, 2) , Arnaud Basdevant (3, 4, 5, 6) , Evelyne Eschwege (1) , Barbara Heude (1)

1 Recherche en épidémiologie et biostatistique
2 Epidémiologie cardiovasculaire et mort subite
3 Nutrition et obésité : approches génétique et transcriptomique
4 Service de nutrition
5 CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière [AP-HP]
6 CRC (UMR_S 872) - Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers

Our results are consistent with previous studies in other countries. Compared with older generations, men and women born in the late 1960s may have been subject to early exposures that increased their lifelong susceptibility to obesity.

Domains: Santé publique et épidémiologie

Ibrahima Diouf, Marie Aline Charles, Pierre Ducimetière, Arnaud Basdevant, Evelyne Eschwege, et al.. Evolution of obesity prevalence in France: an age-period-cohort analysis.. Epidemiology, 2010, 21 (3), pp.360-5. ⟨10.1097/EDE.0b013e3181d5bff5⟩. ⟨inserm-00559257⟩