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The incidence of obesity is dependent on the standard used to define it, but the most relevant standard for any particular study should be based on data derived from the appropriate whole population. These data are hard to obtain and very often the standards adopted are those derived from an American population given in the Metropolitan Life Assurance Company tables (1959). Age and social class have been found to affect the incidence of obesity (McLean Baird et al., 1974)
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Treharne, I.A.L., Sutherland, H.W., Stowers, J.M., Samphier, M. (1979). Reproduction in Obese Women. In: Sutherland, H.W., Stowers, J.M. (eds) Carbohydrate Metabolism in Pregnancy and the Newborn 1978. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-66972-9_31
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