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Population Studies Urbanization and body weight

Figure 1. Trends of continuous measures of body weight status among Chinese men and women (18–65 years older).

Figure 2. Trends of prevalence of overweight and abdominal obesity among Chinese men and women (18-65 years older). BMI, body mass index; WC,
waist circumference; WHpR, waist-to-hip ratio; WHtR, waist-to-height ratio.

from 21.9 in 1991 to 24.1 in 2015 for women and from do not overlap with those in 1991, suggesting statistically
21.5 to 24.6 during the same period for men (Table S1 significant secular increases. Figure 2 shows that using
in Supplementary File). For both men and women, the 95% a cutoff of BMI ≥24 kg/m , the sample percentage of
2
confidence intervals of the sample average BMI in 2015 overweight women nearly doubled from 22.1% in 1991 to

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