Increases in BMI and chronic pain for US adults in midlife, 1992 to 2016

• Main Authors: Andrew C. Stokes (Author), Wubin Xie (Author), Dielle J. Lundberg (Author), Katherine Hempstead (Author), Anna Zajacova (Author), Zachary Zimmer (Author), Dana A. Glei (Author), Ellen Meara (Author), Samuel H. Preston (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Recent unprecedented increases in mortality and morbidity during midlife are often ascribed to rising despair in the US population. An alternative and less often examined explanation is that these trends reflect, at least in part, the lagged effects of the obesity epidemic. Adults in midlife today a...