Estimation of newborn risk for child or adolescent obesity: lessons from longitudinal birth cohorts.

Estimation of newborn risk for child or adolescent obesity: lessons from longitudinal birth cohorts.

<h4>Objectives</h4>Prevention of obesity should start as early as possible after birth. We aimed to build clinically useful equations estimating the risk of later obesity in newborns, as a first step towards focused early prevention against the global obesity epidemic.<h4>Methods&l...

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Main Authors: Anita Morandi, David Meyre, Stéphane Lobbens, Ken Kleinman, Marika Kaakinen, Sheryl L Rifas-Shiman, Vincent Vatin, Stefan Gaget, Anneli Pouta, Anna-Liisa Hartikainen, Jaana Laitinen, Aimo Ruokonen, Shikta Das, Anokhi Ali Khan, Paul Elliott, Claudio Maffeis, Matthew W Gillman, Marjo-Riitta Järvelin, Philippe Froguel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/23209618/?tool=EBI

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