Trends in weight change patterns across life course among US adults, 1988–2018: population-based study

To examine trends in weight change patterns from young adulthood through midlife to late adulthood and their sex and racial/ethnic disparities among US adults from 1988 to 2018. A total of 48,969 participants from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 1988–1994 and 2001–2018 were included. The age-adjusted prevalence of stable non-obesity between young adulthood and midlife declined significantly from 84.1