The Impact of Incarceration on Obesity: Are Prisoners with Chronic Diseases Becoming Overweight and Obese during Their Confinement?

Table 4

BMI changes during incarceration (total population).

	Min	Max	Median	Mean
Age	22.0	87.0	38.0	39.8
Beginning weight (kg)	48.0	176.0	83.5	85.6
Ending weight (kg)	46.3	155.1	83.9	86.0
Height (m)	1.2	2.1	1.8	1.8
Beginning BMI	15.0	60.5	26.5	27.4
Ending BMI	15.7	56.4	26.8	27.5
ΔBMI (%)	−33.2	86.1	0.7	1.0
Duration (days)	2.9	2935	784.6	752.6