Obesity RIS
Monday, April 28, 2014
3:00 PM–5:00 PM
Chairs
Steven Heymsfield, MD, Pennington Biomedical Research Center , Baton Rouge, LA
David Allison, PhD, University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL
Presentations
- Propagation of obesity across generations: The roles of differential realized fertility and assortative mating by body mass index. John Dawson, PhD, University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL
- Mathematical models for predicting individual weight loss. Diana Thomas, PhD, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ
- KHB decomposition of effects in mediation models of obesity. James Hardin, PhD, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
- Dynamic modeling of human metabolism and body composition change. Kevin Hall, PhD, Laboratory of Biological Modeling, NIDDK, NIH, Bethesda, MD