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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Obesity (Silver Spring). 2016 Sep;24(9):1962–1968. doi: 10.1002/oby.21573

Table 3.

Summary of age-related break points with best fit (lowest AIC) based on single breakpoint linear spline models a

Race-Sex Age of break point Slope before break point Slope after break point Change in slopes p-value Fit statistic (AIC)
Black men 31 years 0.67 −0.01 −0.68 <.0001 33548.02
Black women 37 years 0.70 0.10 −0.59 <.0001 46297.29
White men 43 years 0.54 0.04 −0.50 <.0001 38831.08
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Results are presented for race-sex groups with significant quadratic trends for age-related weight gain.