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The abstract for In terms of gender, sexual orientation and obesity, the 2014 2010 journal article ''Weight Status and Sexual Orientation: Differences by Age and Within Racial and Ethnic Subgroups'' which has published in the journal ''The American Journal of Public Health'' declares:{{Cquote|Compared with heterosexual women of the same race/ethnicity, White and African American lesbians and bisexuals had increased likelihood of being overweight at age 18 years and maintaining overweight status during adulthood. Sexual minority status was unrelated to weight among Latinas and inconsistently linked to weight among Asian women compared with heterosexual women of the same race/ethnicity. Sexual minority status was protective against unhealthy weight among White, African American, Asian, and Latino men compared with heterosexual counterparts of the same race/ethnicity. This protective effect was seen after age 18 years except among African American bisexual men.<ref>[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3910028/ ''Weight Status and Sexual Orientation: Differences by Age and Within Racial and Ethnic Subgroups''], Nicholas P. Deputy, MPH and Ulrike Boehmer, PhD corresponding author, Am J Public Health. 2014 January; 104(1): 103–109. Published online 2014 January. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2013.301391</ref>}} In terms of gender, sexual orientation and obesity, the journal article ''Weight Status and Sexual Orientation: Differences by Age and Within Racial and Ethnic Subgroups'' indicates:
{{Cquote|Research has also linked obesity to sexual orientation. Compared with heterosexual men, gay and bisexual men have a lower body mass index (BMI; defined as weight in kilograms divided by the square of height in meters) and decreased odds of being overweight or obese. For women, the relationship between sexual orientation and weight is inverse: studies have consistently concluded that lesbian women have an increased likelihood of overweight and obesity compared with heterosexual women. Some evidence suggests that the weight disparity between sexual orientation groups may begin at an early age. In a group of predominantly White adolescents, sexual minority females had consistently increased BMI throughout adolescence compared with heterosexual females, whereas sexual minority males had decreased BMI in late adolescence compared with heterosexual males. Moreover, data from the Nurses’ Health Study II, a predominantly White cohort, showed that lesbian and bisexual women had significantly greater prevalence of overweight or obesity at age 18 years14 and had an adverse weight gain trajectory from ages 25 to 59 years21 compared with heterosexual women in this cohort.<ref>[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3910028/ ''Weight Status and Sexual Orientation: Differences by Age and Within Racial and Ethnic Subgroups''], Nicholas P. Deputy, MPH and Ulrike Boehmer, PhD corresponding author, Am J Public Health. 2014 January; 104(1): 103–109. Published online 2014 January. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2013.301391</ref>}}
The abstract for the 2010 journal article ''Weight Status and Sexual Orientation: Differences by Age and Within Racial and Ethnic Subgroups'' declares:
{{Cquote|Compared with heterosexual women of the same race/ethnicity, White and African American lesbians and bisexuals had increased likelihood of being overweight at age 18 years and maintaining overweight status during adulthood. Sexual minority status was unrelated to weight among Latinas and inconsistently linked to weight among Asian women compared with heterosexual women of the same race/ethnicity. Sexual minority status was protective against unhealthy weight among White, African American, Asian, and Latino men compared with heterosexual counterparts of the same race/ethnicity. This protective effect was seen after age 18 years except among African American bisexual men.<ref>[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3910028/ ''Weight Status and Sexual Orientation: Differences by Age and Within Racial and Ethnic Subgroups''], Nicholas P. Deputy, MPH and Ulrike Boehmer, PhD corresponding author, Am J Public Health. 2014 January; 104(1): 103–109. Published online 2014 January. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2013.301391</ref>}}
The abstract for the 2010 journal article ''Revisiting obesity and condom use in men who have sex with men'' published in the journal ''Academy of Sex Research'' indicates: