Lower Obesity Rate during Residence at High Altitude among a Military Population with Frequent Migration: A Quasi Experimental Model for Investigating Spatial Causation

• Jameson D. Voss ,

  * E-mail: jameson.voss@us.af.mil

  Affiliations Epidemiology Consult Division, US Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine, Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Preventive Medicine, Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

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• David B. Allison,

  Affiliations Department of Biostatistics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, Nutrition and Obesity Research Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

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• Bryant J. Webber,

  Affiliations Department of Preventive Medicine, Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Trainee Health Surveillance, Joint Base San Antonio – Lackland, Lackland, Texas, United States of America

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• Jean L. Otto,

  Affiliations Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America, Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

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• Leslie L. Clark

  Affiliations Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America, General Dynamics Information Technology, Fairfax, Virginia, United States of America

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