Fig 1. Adjusted mean age (years) at diagnosis of broadly defined cardiometabolic risk factors across body mass index categories at accession among 731,014 US Army Entrants, 2001–2011.

Mean ages of incident overweight/obesity (closed squares), hypertension (closed circles), glucose/insulin disorder (open diamonds), metabolic syndrome (open squares), and dyslipidemia (open circles) were adjusted for sex, age at accession, and year of accession. Age at accession is provided for context. †Overweight/obesity is truly “incident” only in initially underweight or normal-weight Soldiers, and these diagnoses in overweight and obese Soldiers is given for context only.