Today's adult generations are less healthy than their predecessors: generation shifts in metabolic risk factors: the Doetinchem Cohort Study

The health of the elderly of the future is partly determined by their exposure to metabolic risk factors during their life course. Our aim is to study generation shifts in metabolic risk factors.Cohort study.We used data of the Doetinchem Cohort Study, that started in 1987-1991 and had follow-up examinations after 6, 11, and 16 years (n = 6,377). The analyses were stratified by sex and generation, i.e. 10-year age groups (20-29, 30-39, 40-49,...