Fig. 1

Trajectories of the probability of abdominal obesity (%) across the life course for 1493 participants with measurements for all 7 surveys among men (a) and women (b) adult, estimated by multilevel mixed effects models stratified by baseline age group (Birth cohort) (Birth cohorts were stratified into 5 groups: Cohort 1931–1940, Cohort 1941–1950, Cohort 1951–1960, Cohort 1961–1970, Cohort 1971–1980)