Adolescent Overweight and Future Adult Coronary Heart Disease

The effect of adolescent overweight on future adult coronary heart disease (CHD) is not known.We estimated the prevalence of obese 35-year-olds in 2020 on the basis of adolescent overweight in 2000 and historical trends regarding overweight adolescents who become obese adults. We then used the CHD Policy Model, a state-transition computer simulation of U.S. residents who are 35 years of age or older, to project the annual excess incidence and...