Socioeconomic Inequalities in Body Mass Index across Adulthood: Coordinated Analyses of Individual Participant Data from Three British Birth Cohort Studies Initiated in 1946, 1958 and 1970

David Bann; William Johnson; Leah Li; Diana Kuh; Rebecca Hardy

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1002214

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Socioeconomic Inequalities in Body Mass Index across Adulthood: Coordinated Analyses of Individual Participant Data from Three British Birth Cohort Studies Initiated in 1946, 1958 and 1970

David Bann ,

* E-mail: david.bann@ucl.ac.uk

Affiliation Centre for Longitudinal Studies, UCL Institute of Education, London, United Kingdom
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William Johnson,

Affiliation School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences, Loughborough University, Loughborough, United Kingdom
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Leah Li,

Affiliation Population, Policy and Practice, UCL Institute of Child Health, London, United Kingdom
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Diana Kuh,

Affiliation MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing at UCL, London, United Kingdom

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7386-2857

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Rebecca Hardy

Affiliation MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing at UCL, London, United Kingdom
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Socioeconomic Inequalities in Body Mass Index across Adulthood: Coordinated Analyses of Individual Participant Data from Three British Birth Cohort Studies Initiated in 1946, 1958 and 1970

David Bann,
William Johnson,
Leah Li,
Diana Kuh,
Rebecca Hardy

Published: January 10, 2017
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002214

About the Authors

David Bann

* E-mail: david.bann@ucl.ac.uk

Affiliation Centre for Longitudinal Studies, UCL Institute of Education, London, United Kingdom

William Johnson

Affiliation School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences, Loughborough University, Loughborough, United Kingdom

Leah Li

Affiliation Population, Policy and Practice, UCL Institute of Child Health, London, United Kingdom

Diana Kuh

Affiliation MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing at UCL, London, United Kingdom

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7386-2857

Rebecca Hardy

Affiliation MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing at UCL, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: DB RH WJ LL DK. Data curation: DB WJ RH. Formal analysis: DB. Funding acquisition: LL DK RH. Methodology: DB RH WJ LL DK. Project administration: DB RH LL DK. Software: DB. Supervision: RH. Visualization: DB. Writing – original draft: DB. Writing – review & editing: DB RH WJ LL DK.

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