Obesity
Women’s Experience of Abuse in Childhood and Their Children’s Smoking and Overweight
Smoking and overweight are principal determinants of poor health for which individual-level interventions are at best modestly effective. This limited effectiveness may be partly because these risk factors are patterned by parents’ experiences preceding the individual’s birth.Adult Body Mass Index Trajectories and Sexual Orientation: The Nurses' Health Study II
Cross-sectional research has documented elevated prevalence of obesity in lesbian and bisexual women relative to heterosexual women, but little is known about disparities in longitudinal patterns in BMI change during adulthood.
