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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Obesity (Silver Spring). 2008 Oct 30;17(1):169–176. doi: 10.1038/oby.2008.492

Figure 3.

Figure 3

Yearly average change in BMI (kg/m2) and waist circumference (WC, cm) across their distributions by gender and race/ethnicity: ordinary least square estimate of average yearly shift within percentile groups. (a) Non-Hispanic (NH) white men, (b) NH white women, (c) NH black men, (d) NH black women, (e) Mexican-American (MA) men, (f) MA women, (g) Other ethnicity, men, and (h) Other ethnicity, women. Distribution shifts may be influenced by the smaller sample size available among “other” ethnic groups. NHANES, National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.