Trends in body mass index according to educational attainment for urban Australian adults between 1980 and 2007

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We would like to acknowledge the insight the RIO advisory committee has provided to this project. We wish to thank the National Heart Foundation's Risk Factor Prevalence Study Committee and the Australian Social Science Data Archive for access to the Risk Factor Prevalence Studies, the Australian Bureau of Statistics for access to the National Nutrition Survey and National Health Survey, and the AusDiab Steering Committee for access to the AusDiab study. This work was supported by an Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage grant (LP120100418) and in part by the Victorian Government's Operational Infrastructure Support (OIS) Program. EG and K Backholer were also supported by the ARC Linkage grant (LP120100418) and an Australian National Preventive Health Agency grant (188PEE2011), EG was supported by an Australian Postgraduate Award, KB was supported by a Post doctoral Research Fellowship from the National Heart Foundation of Australia (PH 12M6824), AP was supported by a National Health and Medical Research Council Career Development Fellowship (1045456) and the Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute, CS was supported by an ARC Discovery Project Grant (DP120103277) and K Ball was supported by a NHMRC Principal Research Fellowship, ID 1042442.