Evidence That Obesity Risk Factor Potencies Are Weight Dependent a Phenomenon That May Explain Accelerated Weight Gain in Western Societies

摘要

Background We have shown that individuals at the highest percentiles of the body mass index (BMI) distribution (i.e., most overweight) experience greater increases in body weight from sedentary lifestyle than those from the lowest percentiles. The purpose of the current analyses was to assess whether recent, accelerated increases in obesity could potentially be due to increased vulnerability to obesity risk factors as the population has become more overweight.