Association of continuous adiposity measures with mental health functioning by age: Basic model.

<p>The graphs present associations of adiposity measures with mental health functioning by age estimated by augmenting basic models (<a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0148561#pone.0148561.t002" target="_blank">Table 2</a>) with polynomial interactions of age with adiposity measures (linear and quadratic interactions in case of BMI; linear, quadratic and cubic interactions in case of WC). These associations were obtained by linear combinations of the main adiposity coefficients and the age-adiposity interactions across different ages (solid lines; shaded area: 95% confidence intervals).</p

Contribution of each physical health condition to the association between continuous adiposity measures and GHQ-12 at specific ages.

<p>Contribution of each physical health condition to the association between continuous adiposity measures and GHQ-12 at specific ages.</p

Association of dichotomous obesity measures with GHQ-12 by age: the dominant role of physical health.

<p>The graphs present predicted differences in mental health functioning between obese/non-obese by age estimated when previous models (<a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0148561#pone.0148561.g002" target="_blank">Fig 2</a>) were further adjusted for (a) socio-economic characteristics, marital status and smoking (“without health”; solid lines with shaded area representing the 95%CI) and (b) for all the previous including the full set of physical health conditions (“full model”; dashed lines with spike plots representing the 95%CI). These associations were obtained by linear combinations of the main obesity coefficients and the age-obesity interactions (linear and quadratic interactions in case of BMI-obesity; linear, quadratic and cubic interactions in case of BF%-obesity and abdominal obesity) across different ages.</p

Association of adiposity measures with mental health functioning in UKHLS (waves 2–3, 5/2010-7/2013): Basic model^a.

<p>Association of adiposity measures with mental health functioning in UKHLS (waves 2–3, 5/2010-7/2013): Basic model<a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0148561#t002fn005" target="_blank">^a</a>.</p

Association of dichotomous obesity measures with mental health functioning by age: Basic model.

<p>The graphs present predicted differences in mental health functioning between obese/non-obese by age estimated by augmenting basic models (<a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0148561#pone.0148561.t002" target="_blank">Table 2</a>) with polynomial interactions of age with obesity measures (linear and quadratic interactions in case of BMI-obesity measures; linear, quadratic and cubic interactions in case of BF%-obesity and abdominal obesity). These results were obtained by linear combinations of the main obesity coefficients and the age-obesity interactions across different ages (solid lines; shaded area: 95% confidence intervals).</p

Participant characteristics for the analysis sample of UKHLS (waves 2–3, 5/2010-7/2013) by age group^a.

<p>Participant characteristics for the analysis sample of UKHLS (waves 2–3, 5/2010-7/2013) by age group<a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0148561#t001fn002" target="_blank">^a</a>.</p

Contribution of each physical health condition to the association between obesity and GHQ-12 at specific ages.

<p>Contribution of each physical health condition to the association between obesity and GHQ-12 at specific ages.</p