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Background
No study has examined how the pattern of income dynamics influences both of children's body mass index (BMI) trajectory and health behaviours.
Objectives
To examine the association between household poverty dynamics and childhood overweight risk in the USA.
Methods
Using the longitudinal data of 16 800 children (from kindergarten to the 8th grade) in the nationally representative US...
The problem of obesity is alarming public health authorities around the world. Therefore, it is important to study its determinants. In this paper, we explore the empirical relationship between household income and body mass index (BMI) in nine European Union countries. Our findings suggest that, in general, the association is negative for women and nonexistent for men. Moreover, once we decompose...
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