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Utz, Rebecca L. | Obesity in America, 1960-2000: is it an age, period or cohort phenomenon? | Increasing rates of obesity have sparked tremendous public concern because excess body weight is linked to a host of mortality, morbidity, and disability outcomes. Using five waves of data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), this project privides a four-decade pict... | Health, weight; Overweight; Population trends | 2004-09-23 |
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Utz, Rebecca L. | Procedure to correct proxy-reported weight in the National Health Interview Survey, 1976-2002 | Background: Data from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) show a larger-than-expected increase in mean BMI between 1996 and 1997. Proxy-reports of height and weight were discontinued as part of the 1997 NHIS redesign, suggesting that the sharp increase between 1996 and 1997 may be artifactua... | National Health Interview Survey; NHIS; Proxy-reported weight | 2009 |
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Mo, Wenjing | Institutionalization among the elderly in Japan and China: a comparative study | | 2013 Center on Aging Poster Retreat | 2013 |
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Kentor, Jeffrey D. | Position in the World Economy 1820-2007 | | | 2011 |
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Mineau, Geraldine Page | Familial predisposition to developmental dysplasia of the hip | Developmental dysplasia of the hip (DDH) is a common birth defect and is thought to have genetic contributions to the phenotype. It is likely that DDH is genetically heterogeneous with environmental modifiers. The Utah Population Database (UPDB) is a computerized integration of pedigrees, vital stat... | Developmental dysplasia of the hip; DDH; Utah Population Database; UPDB | 2009 |
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Mineau, Geraldine Page; Bean, Lee Lawrence | Macrosimulation approach to the investigation of natural fertility | This paper is part of a long-term investigation known as the Mormon Historical Demography Project. It examines the capability of a simulation model, originally proposed by John Bongaarts (1976), to fit the natural fertility pattern which characterized the mid-nineteenth century Mormon population. Ap... | Mormon Historical Demography Project; Macrosimulation; Natural fertility | 1982 |
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Wen, Ming | Sex and ethnic differences in validity of self-reported adult height, weight and body mass index | Objectives: Describe self-reported and mea-sured height, weight, and body mass index (BMI) stratified by sex and ethnicity in the United States, explore ethnic variations in the likelihood of under-reporting BMI, and investigate pathways linking race/ethnicity to the underassessment of BMI. | | 2012-01-01 |
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Zimmer, Zachary | HIV/AIDS and the living arrangements of older persons across the Sub-Saharan African region | ABSTRACT: Older adults in sub-Saharan Africa face harsh living conditions including severe poverty and an HIV/AIDS epidemic that results in unprecedented rates of mortality. Yet, because of a lack of available data and only a trickle of past studies, the impact of these conditions on living circum... | HIV/AIDS; Sub-Saharan Africa; Poverty | 2007-11-08 |
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Mineau, Geraldine Page | Specification of marital fertility by parents' age, age at marriage and marital duration | The positive association between wife's age at marriage and fertility experienced at the older reproductive ages, cited in recent natural fertility literature, is explored using Mormon birth cohorts from 1840 to 1879. When this relationship is specified by husband's age at marriage and marriage dur... | Marital fertility; Marital duration; Paternal age; Father's age; Mother's age | 1982 |
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Zimmer, Zachary | Living arrangements of older adults in the developing world: an analysis of DHS household surveys | Using data from Demographic and Health Surveys, this study examines living arrangements of older adults in 43 developing countries and compares patterns by gender, world regions, and macro-level measures of socioeconomic development. Indicators include household size, headship, relationship to head... | Demographic and Health Surveys; Living arrangements; Older adults | 2001 |
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Wolfinger, Nicholas H. | Thanks for nothing: changes in income and labor force participation for never-married mothers since 1982 | This study examines whether the changing social and economic characteristics of women who give birth out of wedlock have led to higher family incomes. Using Current Population Survey data collected between 1982 and 2002, we find that never-married mothers remain poor. They have made modest econom... | Motherhood; Single Mothers; Income; Population surveys | 2006-07-26 |
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Zimmer, Zachary | Determinants of old-age mortality in Taiwan | Relationships among socio-demographic characteristics, general assessments of health, and old-age mortality are well established in developed countries. There is also an increasing focus on the connection between early-life experiences and late-life health. This paper tests these and other associat... | Mortality determinants; Gompertz regression | 2003 |
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Zimmer, Zachary | Living arrangements and socio-demographic conditions of older adults in Cambodia | Since the takeover of Cambodia by the Khmer Rouge in 1975, analysis of social conditions in the country has been lacking. Only recently has dependable socio-demographic data become available. We use some of these data to examine living arrangements and other socio-demographic conditions among Cambod... | Living arrangements; Older adults; Socio-demographic conditions; Coresident children | 2002 |
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Utz, Rebecca L. | What is a cohort effect? Comparison of three statistical methods for modeling cohort effects in obesity prevalence in the United States, 1971-2006 | Analysts often use different conceptual definitions of a cohort effect, and therefore different statistical methods, which lead to differing empirical results. A definition often used in sociology assumes that cohorts have unique characteristics confounded by age and period effects, whereas epidem... | Cohort effect; Obesity prevalence | 2010 |
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Zimmer, Zachary | Urban versus rural mortality among older adults in China | Urban versus rural place of residence has proven to be a critical health determinant over time and across countries. Several studies have demonstrated an urban advantage in mortality in China. This variation by place of residence could be a function of differences in characteristics of individuals, ... | Urban mortality; Rural mortality; China | 2006 |
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Zimmer, Zachary | Changes in functional limitations and survival among the elderly in Taiwan: 1993, 1996, and 1999 | This paper focuses on changes in the prevalence of functional limitations among nationally representative samples of adults aged 65 and older in Taiwan as measured in 1993, 1996, and 1999. Using data from the Survey of Health and Living Status of the Elderly in Taiwan, we investigate changes in diff... | Functional limitation; Climbing stairs | 2002 |
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Zimmer, Zachary | Living arrangements of older adults in sub-Saharan Africa in a time of HIV/AIDS | The detrimental consequences of the AIDS epidemic for older adults in sub-Saharan Africa suggest the need to investigate their characteristics, living situations, and well-being. In this study, we examine the living arrangements of persons aged 60 and older in 16 countries. Data come from the house... | Living arrangements; Older adults; Sub-Saharan Africa; HIV/AIDS | 2003 |
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Mineau, Geraldine Page | Quantification of the familial contribution to müllerian anomalies | Cases of müllerian anomalies, identified by International Classification of Diseases and Current Procedural Terminology codes from January 1994 to March 2006, were collected from the largest hospital systems in the state of Utah. All records were subsequently matched to the Utah Population Databas... | Mullerian anomalies; Utah Population Database; UPDB | 2008 |
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Wen, Ming | Neighborhood socioeconomic status and BMI differences by immigrant and legal status: Evidence from Utah | We build on recent work examining the BMI patterns of immigrants in the US by distinguishing between legal and undocumented immigrants. We find that undocumented women have relative odds of obesity that are about 10 percentage points higher than for legal immigrant women, and their relative odds of ... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Zimmer, Zachary | Disability and active life expectancy among older Cambodians | Older adults in Cambodia are survivors of harsh living conditions, including poverty and periods of extreme violence. Although these experiences may affect health outcomes, little data has existed to monitor Cambodia's older population. The current paper uses data from the 2004 Study of the Elder... | Active Life Expectancy; Ageing; Cambodia; Disability; Functional Status; Southeast Asia | 2006-07 |
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Mineau, Geraldine Page; Bean, Lee Lawrence | Intergenerational transmission of relative fertility and life course patterns | In many countries fertility trends over the last century have been characterized by sustained declines and the dissemination of a relatively sophisticated contraceptive knowledge. Many possible avenues for the dissemination of such knowledge exist among contemporary populations. There has, however,... | Relative fertility; Intergenerational transmission | 1987 |
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Zimmer, Zachary | Reciprocal effects of health and economic well-being among older adults in Taiwan and Beijing | The objectives of this study are threefold: 1) to examine whether socioeconomic status disparities in health are found in non-Western settings; 2) to assess whether socioeconomic status gradients in health endure into older ages; and 3) to evaluate the direction of causality between health and soci... | Well-being; Health | 2005 |
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Wen, Ming | Air pollution shortens life expectancy and health expectancy for older adults: the case of China | Background: Outdoor air pollution is one of the most worrying environmental threats China faces today. Comprehensive and quantitative analysis of the health consequences of air pollution in China is lacking. This study reports age-sex-specific life expectancy (LE) and health expectancies (HEs) corre... | | 2012-01-01 |
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Wen, Ming | Residential racial composition and black-white obesity risks: differential effects of neighborhood social and built environment | This study investigates the association between neighborhood racial composition and adult obesity risks by race and gender, and explores whether neighborhood social and built environment mediates the observed protective or detrimental effects of racial composition on obesity risks. Cross-sectional d... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Wen, Ming | Physical activity and mortality among middle-aged and older adults in the United States | Background-Physical activity (PA) has been routinely linked to lower all-cause mortality, yet extant research in the United States is primarily based on non-representative samples. Evidence is scant on the relative and independent merits of leisure-time (LTPA) versus non-leisure-time (NLTPA) activit... | | 2014-01-01 |
