Research Article
Black-White Disparities in Overweight and Obesity Trends by Educational Attainment in the United States, 1997–2008
Table 2
Slope differences for BMI and survey year between Blacks compared to Whites among men and women, overall and by educational attainment, 1997–2008.
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β: beta; <HS: less than high school, HS: high school, >HS: greater than high school. Adjusted model: age (4 categories), marital status, smoking status, leisure-time physical activity, alcohol consumption, poor income, region of country, and self-reported general health status; values represent sex-specific slope differences between Blacks and Whites by education level from linear regression models; combined interaction term race, education and survey year. |