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Development of the obesity epidemic in England
David Boniface
Health Behaviour Research Centre
Epidemiology and Public HealthUniversity College London
e-mail: [email protected]
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Talk Programme
• Description of the obesity epidemic.
• Effects of environment, lifestyle and ageing.
• Extrapolating current obesity trends.
• Issues and limitations.
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Obesity Epidemic References• Development of the epidemic:
– Breslow L. Public health aspects of weight control. Am J Public Health 1952;42: 1116-20.
– Rosenbaum S. 100 years of heights and weights. J R Statist Soc A 1988;151: 276-309.
– Harlan WR et al. Secular Trends in body mass in the United States, 1960-1980. Am J Epidemiol 1988;128: 1065-74.
– Flegal KM, et al. Prevalence and trends in obesity among US adults, 1999-2000. JAMA. 2002; 288:1723-7.
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Data Sources (cross-sectional)
• National Heights and Weights Survey, 1980
• Health and Lifestyle Survey, 1984/85
• Diet and Nutritional Survey of British Adults, 1987
• Health Survey for England 1991-2006 (annual)
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Heights & Weights
Health & Lifestyle
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Change of shape of the BMI distribution
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Changes in percentiles (Tukey mean-difference plot)
• Differences between the 1980 and 2006 values of each percentile are plotted against the mean of the 1980 and 2006 values
• Graph shows these percentiles:
2.5 5, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 95 97.5.
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Interpretation of Tukey mean-difference plots
• Greater increases in BMI for higher vs lower percentiles
• Females: greater increases than males in the higher percentiles, especially in younger age groups
• Males: increases in lower percentiles for older men.
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Obesity epidemic - contributions of environment, lifestyle and ageing
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Pseudo-cohorts
• take a sequence of cross sectional surveys some years apart.
• in each survey identify participants whose ages match those of a hypothetical cohort repeatedly observed as it ages.
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Compare real- with pseudo-cohorts
• A real longitudinal cohort study provides rich information about growth patterns
• A pseudo-longitudinal study can draw repeatedly on the same range of ages.
• A group of parallel pseudo-cohorts can help separate ageing and environmental effects.
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Males 18-64: mean BMI: parallel pseudo-cohorts.
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Males 18-64: BMI age trends.
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Males 18-64: BMI environmental or secular trends.
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Linear annual increases in BMIMALES COEFFICIENT 95% C.I. Due to
age (adj) 0.079 (0.076 to 0.081) ageing
survey year(adj) 0.108 (0.103 to 0.113) environ.
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Obesity epidemic - contributions of environment, lifestyle and ageing
• Pseudo-cohorts can reproduce the development of adiposity throughout lifetimes
• Ageing and environmental effects are confounded within but not between cohorts.
• BMI increase can be decomposed into ageing and environmental contributions.
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Concluding remarks on historical development of the BMI distribution 1. Significant environment based increases
in BMI started after 1987.
2. Male ageing effect mainly in 18-44y but females show increases 18-64y.
3. Environment effect > ageing effect.
4. Pseudo-cohorts BMI increase, total rate = environment + ageing.
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Obesity rates and the future
Attention is on future of obesity rates as BMI 30+ is the threshold for clinical consequences.
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Overweight and Obesity Prevalence (ages 18-64)
BMI 25 to 29 = overweight: BMI 30+ = obese:
Base n % overwt % obese
1980 men
women
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Alternative models for growth in obesity rates
• The government’s Foresight project predicted very high obesity rates for England for 2050 using a tanh model and HSE data from 1993-2004.
• How does this compare with using 1980-2006 data and different models?
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“tanh - A simple and convenient set of slowly varying, monotonic functions that are asymptotic to 0 and 1 are provided by the set:”
)tanh(1)( 21 btatp
Foresight (McPherson K. et al (2007))
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Probability of males aged 21–60 belonging to a specific BMI group in a given year [95% C.I.]
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Probability of females aged 21–60 belonging to a specific BMI group in a given year [95% C.I.]
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NatCen PredictionZaninotto P, Wardle H, Stamatakis E. et al. 2006.
Forecasting Obesity to 2010. Report prepared for UK Department of Health. www.dh.gov.uk/en/
This report was by NatCen – who carry out the Health Survey for England. It used HSE 1993-2003.
Predictions for obesity rates 2003 2010 were:
Men (16-74) 21.3% 29.4%
Women (16-74) 21.7% 26.3%
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Zaninotto et al, 2006
• “Two curves, …. power and exponential, were selected as being plausible models for the data that would allow for either acceleration or slowing down in changes in prevalence of obesity”
• “The choice between the two curves was made on the basis of the curve that ‘best fits’ the data”
• Power curve: Y = b0*(t**b1)• Logistic curve: Y = 1/{(1/u) + (b0*(b1**t))}
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Compare Three Logistic Curves
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Prediction using Gompertz curve and 1980-2006 data
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Predictions to 2010
model
Data used
Male
Obese % 2010
95% C.I.
tanh (Foresight)
(2 parameters)
1993-03
(21-60y)
31.3 (30.0 – 32.7)
NATCEN 1993-03
(16-74y)
29.4
Gompertz 1980-06
(18-64y)
25.5 (24.3 – 26.8)
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Predictions to 2050
model
Data used
Male
Obese % 2050
95% C.I.
tanh (Foresight)
(2 parameters)
1993-03
(21-60y)
60.0 (55.0 – 65.0)
tanh
(3 parameters)
1980-05
(21-60y)
31.5 (19.7 – 43.3)
Gompertz 1980-05
(18-64y)
33.0 (23.1 – 43.3)
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Modelling Issues
Obtaining a predicted distribution of BMI rather than just a mean or % obese
Taking account of predicted changes in population age distribution
Choice of shape of fitted curve
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Conclusions
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Conclusions (pseudo-cohorts)
A group of parallel pseudo-cohorts is advantageous in separating ageing and environmental effects.
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Conclusions (BMI trends)
• Pseudo-cohorts showed BMI in men and women increasing as they aged by around 0.20 BMI points p.a.
• Environment-based change was the largest contributor at around 0.11 p.a.
• Ageing added around 0.08 p.a.
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Conclusions (start of the epidemic)
• The main environment-based increases appear after 1987
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Conclusions (BMI distribution shape change)
There has been a marked change in the BMI distribution:
– Higher percentiles have increased more than lower percentiles.
– Especially true in women, where younger women have shown the largest increases.
– Suggests faster than expected increase in prevalence of very obese (BMI 40+)
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Conclusions (predicting the future)
Predicting the future is important and there should be a debate about the methods.