Associations between patterns of overweight in childhood, adolescence and adulthood and cardiovascular outcomes in three British birth cohorts, from logistic regression analyses.

*In childhood and adolescence, 0 = normal weight; 1 = overweight or obese. In adulthood, 0 = nonobese; 1 = obese. †Persistent overweight: overweight in childhood and adolescence and obese adulthood. OR is for odds of disease outcome compared to never overweight category; Adjusted for sex, year of birth, exact age and height at childhood BMI measurement, birth weight, SEP at birth SEP in adulthood, and smoking status in adulthood; adjusted for weighted sampling in NSHD.