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Published in final edited form as: Med Decis Making. 2009 Nov 25;30(3):E1–E11. doi: 10.1177/0272989X09351749

Table 2.

Transitions probabilities (standard errors) across adult (18+ years) BMI categories.

2001–2002 (Panel 6)						2004–2005 (Panel 9)						Difference between 2001–2002 & 2004–2005

	Normal	Over- weight	Obese Class 1	Obese Class 2	Obese Class 3		Normal	Over- weight	Obese Class 1	Obese Class 2	Obese Class 3		Normal	Over- weight	Obese Class 1	Obese Class 2	Obese Class 3
Normal	0.795⁺ (0.014)	0.198⁺ (0.013)	0.007⁺ (0.002)	0.000 (0.000)	0.000 (0.000)	Normal	0.815⁺ (0.013)	0.179⁺ (0.012)	0.006⁺ (0.001)	0.000 (0.000)	0.000 (0.000)	Normal	−0.019 (0.019)	0.019 (0.018)	0.001 (0.002)	0.000 (0.000)	0.000 (0.000)
Over-weight	0.152⁺ (0.013)	0.716⁺ (0.017)	0.123⁺ (0.009)	0.008⁺ (0.003)	0.001 (0.001)	Over-weight	0.156⁺ (0.010)	0.715⁺ (0.008)	0.122⁺ (0.009)	0.007⁺ (0.001)	0.001 (0.000)	Over-weight	−0.004 (0.017)	0.001 (0.019)	0.001 (0.013)	0.002 (0.003)	0.000 (0.001)
Obese Class 1	0.010 (0.003)	0.255⁺ (0.018)	0.587⁺ (0.02)	0.133⁺ (0.013)	0.016⁺ (0.006)	Obese Class 1	0.009⁺ (0.001)	0.236⁺ (0.017)	0.622⁺ (0.014)	0.120⁺ (0.011)	0.013⁺ (0.002)	Obese Class 1	0.001 (0.003)	0.018 (0.025)	−0.035 (0.025)	0.013 (0.017)	0.002 (0.006)
Obese Class 2	0.001⁺ (0.000)	0.033⁺ (0.007)	0.324⁺ (0.032)	0.495⁺ (0.03)	0.146⁺ (0.041)	Obese Class 2	0.001⁺ (0.000)	0.024⁺ (0.004)	0.307⁺ (0.029)	0.511⁺ (0.023)	0.158⁺ (0.022)	Obese Class 2	0.000 (0.000)	0.009 (0.008)	0.017 (0.043)	−0.016 (0.038)	−0.011 (0.047)
Obese Class 3	0.000 (0.001)	0.003 (0.004)	0.037⁺ (0.016)	0.258⁺ (0.046)	0.702⁺ (0.059)	Obese Class 3	0.000 (0.000)	0.002⁺ (0.001)	0.040⁺ (0.012)	0.250⁺ (0.037)	0.708⁺ (0.047)	Obese Class 3	0.000 (0.001)	0.000 (0.004)	−0.003 (0.020)	0.009 (0.059)	−0.007 (0.075)

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p-value < 0.05.