Race/Ethnicity, Life-Course Socioeconomic Position, and Body Weight Trajectories Over 34 years: The Alameda County Study
Peter T. Baltrus, PhD,
John W. Lynch, PhD,
Susan Everson-Rose, PhD,
Trivellore E. Raghunathan, PhD and
George A. Kaplan, PhD
Peter T. Baltrus is with the Social Epidemiology Research Center, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, Ga. George A. Kaplan, John W. Lynch, and Trivellore E. Raghunathan are with the Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Susan Everson-Rose is with the Department of Preventive Medicine, Rush Medical College, Rush Medical Center, Chicago, Ill.
FIGURE 1—Body weight by year of study for Black (black line) and White (gray line) women (a) and men (b) aged 17 to 40 years in 1965 in the Alameda County Study with adjustment for age and height.