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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jul 29.
Published in final edited form as: Eur J Clin Nutr. 2015 May 6;69(12):1306–1312. doi: 10.1038/ejcn.2015.71

Table 3.

Waist Circumference Distribution in Baseline Year and Annualized Percentage Point Change in Follow-up Year among Women and Men aged 20–49 years, United States, Mexico, England, and China*

US Mexican
Americans
US Non-Hispanic
Whites
US Non-Hispanic
Blacks
Mexico England China

Baseline Yearly
change
by:
Baseline Yearly
change
by:
Baseline Yearly
change
by:
Baseline Yearly
change
by:
Baseline Yearly
change
by:
Baseline Yearly
change
by:
1988–94 2007–10 1988–94 2007–10 1988–94 2007–10 1999 2012 1992–93 2008–9 1993 2011
Waist
circumference
(cm),
categorized
(Percent) (Percent) (Percent) (Percent) (Percent) (Percent) (Percent) (Percent) (Percent) (Percent) (Percent) (Percent)
A. Women
<65 1.2 0.0 2.1 −0.1 1.5 0.0 5.5 −0.4 3.8 −0.1 10.9 −0.4
65–69 5.4 −0.2 11.5 −0.4 5.7 −0.2 10.9 −0.6 13.9 −0.4 20.7 −0.6
70–74 10.1 −0.3 16.9 −0.4 11.2 −0.3 15.3 −0.7 22.7 −0.5 26.5 −0.4
75–79 11.4 −0.1 16.9 −0.3 10.9 −0.3 18.0 −0.5 20.6 −0.2 19.1 0.0
80–89 26,.0 −0.1 23.6 0.2 25.5 −0.2 29.4 0.0 23.9 0.2 18.1 0.7
90–99 24.9 0.2 13.4 0.3 19.4 0.0 15.2 0.9 9.8 0.5 4.2 0.4
100–109 12.0 0.3 9.0 0.2 12.7 0.2 4.5 0.8 3.5 0.3 0.6 0.1
110–119 6.1 0.2 4.5 0.2 7.8 0.3 0.8 0.4 1.4 0.2 0.0 n/a
120–129 2.2 0.1 1.2 0.2 3.2 0.3 0.2 0.1 0.3 0.1 0.0 n/a
≥130 0.7 0.1 0.8 0.1 2.2 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 n/a
B. Men
<65 0.0 n/a 4.6 n/a 0.1 0.0 0.1 0.0 4.6 −0.2
65–69 0.6 0.0 0.5 0.0 2.6 0.0 0.4 0.0 15.3 −0.7
70–74 4.5 −0.1 2.9 0.0 10.3 −0.1 3.1 0.0 29.0 −1.1
75–79 10.0 −0.4 10.0 −0.2 14.1 −0.1 8.2 −0.1 20.5 −0.4
80–89 31.2 −0.7 27.6 −0.3 27.2 −0.4 35.4 −0.6 24.0 0.7
90–99 31.4 0.2 32.2 −0.2 24.2 0.0 34.3 −0.1 5.6 1.2
100–109 14.7 0.6 17.3 0.2 12.7 0.2 14.0 0.5 0.9 0.4
110–119 5.4 0.1 5.6 0.3 4.9 0.3 3.5 0.2 0.0 0.1
120–129 1.3 0.1 2.4 0.2 2.7 0.1 0.9 0.1 0.0 0.0
≥130 0.9 0.1 1.5 0.1 1.3 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.0 n/a
*

Weighted to be nationally representative for Mexico, the United States, and England.

Data on men not available for Mexico.

Source: China: The China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS, 1993 and 2011)24; England: The Health Survey for England (HSE), 1992-93 and 2008-920; United States The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III-1988-94 and the combined NHANES 2007-8 plus 2009-10)19; Mexico: The Mexican Nutrition Survey 1999 (MSN 1999) and the Mexican National Health and Nutrition Survey 2012 (NHNS 2012)25, 26.