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Under the headline "As Obesity Rate Soars, Hormone Offers New Hope," the paper lists JAMA 's sobering statistics: The percentage of obese Americans--those 30 percent heavier than their ideal body weight--has increased nearly 50 percent in the '90s, from 12 percent in 1991 to 17.
As estimated in regression models that adjusted only for examination age, girls who underwent menarche before age 12 y were, on average, 3.2 kg/m 2(blacks) to 3.6 kg/m 2(whites) heavier as adults than were girls who underwent menarche after 13.
Black is also slenderizing, so perhaps the heavier bridesmaids lobby made itself heard.
Birth defects, a heterogeneous grouping of defects recorded in hospital delivery records, were included given that affected infants are reported to have lighter or heavier birth weights depending upon the nature of the defect.
As others have reported, [ 11 18 ] boys were generally heavier than girls at each gestational age (Figure 2).