Body shape trajectories are associated with birth weight, body mass index and sociodemographic conditions in participants of the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA-Brasil): a multiple correspondence analysis

Table 1 Mean of the generalized Fréchet distance among the trajectories

Trajectory number	Mean of the generalized Fréchet distance
Trajectory number	Women	Men
3	19.70	26.77
4	22.47	21.23
5	22.46	19.40
6	19.58	21.45
7	21.09	21.71
8	14.52	16.81
9	20.76	18.65

According to this measure, the ideal number of body shape trajectories to represent the male population was three and four or five for the female population

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