Modeling US Adult Obesity Trends: A System Dynamics Model for Estimating Energy Imbalance Gap.

Objectives. We present a system dynamics model that quantifies the energy imbalance gap responsible for the US adult obesity epidemic among gender and racial subpopulations. Methods. We divided the adult population into gender–race/ethnicity subpopulations and body mass index (BMI) classes. We defin...

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Publicado en:	American Journal of Public Health Vol. 104; no. 7; pp. 1230 - 1240
Autores principales:	Fallah-Fini, Saeideh, Rahmandad, Hazhir, Huang, Terry T.-K., Bures, Regina M., Glass, Thomas A.
Formato:	Journal Article
Publicado:	American Public Health Association Jul2014
Materias:	United States Black people Computer simulation Hispanic Americans Obesity Sex distribution Systems theory White people Cross-sectional method Retrospective studies Calibration Cluster analysis (Statistics) Energy metabolism Homeostasis Ingestion Research funding Time Secondary analysis Body mass index Descriptive statistics
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