Revealing the burden of obesity using weight histories.

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Published in Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A on January 04, 2016

Authors

Andrew Stokes1, Samuel H Preston2

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Global Health and Center for Global Health and Development, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02118; acstokes@bu.edu spreston@sas.upenn.edu.
2: Department of Sociology and Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104 acstokes@bu.edu spreston@sas.upenn.edu.

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