Fig. 5.

Black–White differences in predicted BMI trajectories by birth cohort. Results are based on model 4 in SI Appendix, Tables S3 and S4 for women and men, respectively. Only every other 10-y birth cohort is included for purpose of illustration. Black women exhibited steeper increases in BMI than White women over all ages and cohorts. Though cohort variations in the Black and White gaps in BMI trajectories are evident for both genders, they are more substantial for women compared with men. More recent cohorts show more consistently greater increases in BMI in Blacks than in Whites.