ArticleChildren (Basel, Switzerland)2025
Ethnic Differences in Weight Category Transition and Body Mass Index Trajectories from Adolescence to Young Adulthood in Israel.
Article in Children (Basel, Switzerland), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
objectiveTo assess ethnic differences in the transition of weight categories and in BMI trajectories from adolescence to young adulthood between Jewish and Arab populations.
methodsA retrospective cohort study, based on the centralized computerized database of 'Clalit Health Services', the major health service organization that insures 52% of the Israeli population. The study population consisted of 99,741 adolescents born from 1988 to 1992 who had at least one BMI measurement in the exposure (ages 17-19 years) and follow-up (age 20 to <30 years) periods. We examined differences in weight categories in young adulthood (ages 20 to <30 years), by ethnic group, and assessed whether ethnicity moderated BMI trajectories from 20 to <30 years of age. Multilevel models were applied to examine BMI trajectories.
resultsA higher percentage of Arab than Jewish adolescents from the 'underweight', 'normal', and 'overweight' categories moved to one of the higher weight categories in young adulthood (
conclusionsMany adolescents, even if not obese, have increasing BMI trajectories at ages 17-19 and move to a higher weight category in adulthood. Arab adolescents constitute a risk group for rapid BMI increase as they transition to adulthood. The present study could contribute to a better understanding of BMI dynamics and, in turn, to the development of more effective public health and policy interventions.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.