PMID- 15321794
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20040921
LR  - 20230318
IS  - 0002-9165 (Print)
IS  - 0002-9165 (Linking)
VI  - 80
IP  - 3
DP  - 2004 Sep
TI  - Five-year obesity incidence in the transition period between adolescence and 
      adulthood: the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health.
PG  - 569-75
AB  - BACKGROUND: No nationally representative longitudinal data have been analyzed to 
      evaluate the incidence of obesity in the transition between adolescence and 
      adulthood. OBJECTIVE: The objective was to examine dynamic patterns of change in 
      obesity among white, black, Hispanic, and Asian US teens as they transitioned to 
      young adulthood. DESIGN: We used nationally representative, longitudinally 
      measured height and weight data collected from US adolescents enrolled in wave II 
      (1996; ages 13-20 y) and wave III (2001; 19-26 y) of the National Longitudinal 
      Study of Adolescent Health (n = 9795). Obesity incidence was defined on the basis 
      of International Obesity Task Force (IOTF) cutoffs (wave II), which link 
      childhood body mass index (BMI) centiles to adult cutoffs (BMI > or = 30; wave 
      III), for comparability between adolescence and adulthood. In addition, the more 
      commonly used cutoff of BMI > or = 95th percentile for age- and sex-specific 
      cutoffs from the 2000 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention growth charts 
      for adolescents (wave II) were compared with adult cutoffs (BMI > or = 30; wave 
      III). RESULTS: On the basis of the IOTF cutoffs, obesity incidence over the 5-y 
      study period was 12.7%; 9.4% of the population remained obese and 1.6% shifted 
      from obese to nonobese. Obesity incidence was especially high in non-Hispanic 
      black (18.4%) females relative to white females. The prevalence of obesity 
      increased from 10.9% in wave II to 22.1% in wave III, and extreme obesity was 
      4.3% at wave III on the basis of a BMI > or = 40. CONCLUSIONS: During a 5-y 
      transitional period between adolescence and young adulthood, the proportion of 
      adolescents becoming and remaining obese into adulthood was very high. This 
      upward trend is likely to continue. Effective preventive and treatment efforts 
      are critically needed.
FAU - Gordon-Larsen, Penny
AU  - Gordon-Larsen P
AD  - Carolina Population Center, Department of Nutrition, University of North 
      Carolina, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
FAU - Adair, Linda S
AU  - Adair LS
FAU - Nelson, Melissa C
AU  - Nelson MC
FAU - Popkin, Barry M
AU  - Popkin BM
LA  - eng
GR  - DK 56350/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/United States
GR  - K01 HD 044263-01/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/United States
GR  - R01 HD 041375-01/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/United States
GR  - R01 HD 39183-01/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/United States
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.
PL  - United States
TA  - Am J Clin Nutr
JT  - The American journal of clinical nutrition
JID - 0376027
SB  - IM
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - *Adolescent Nutritional Physiological Phenomena
MH  - Adult
MH  - Age Distribution
MH  - Asian/statistics & numerical data
MH  - Black People/statistics & numerical data
MH  - *Body Mass Index
MH  - *Ethnicity/statistics & numerical data
MH  - Female
MH  - Hispanic or Latino/statistics & numerical data
MH  - Humans
MH  - Incidence
MH  - Longitudinal Studies
MH  - Male
MH  - Nutrition Surveys
MH  - Obesity/*epidemiology/prevention & control
MH  - Obesity, Morbid/epidemiology
MH  - Public Health
MH  - Sex Distribution
MH  - United States/epidemiology
MH  - White People/statistics & numerical data
EDAT- 2004/08/24 05:00
MHDA- 2004/09/24 05:00
CRDT- 2004/08/24 05:00
PHST- 2004/08/24 05:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2004/09/24 05:00 [medline]
PHST- 2004/08/24 05:00 [entrez]
AID - S0002-9165(22)03563-8 [pii]
AID - 10.1093/ajcn/80.3.569 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Am J Clin Nutr. 2004 Sep;80(3):569-75. doi: 10.1093/ajcn/80.3.569.