First-year college students' weight change is influenced by their randomly assigned roommates' BMI.
<h4>Background</h4>There is ongoing debate about whether friends' greater similarity in Body Mass Index (BMI) than non-friends is due to friend selection, shared environments, or peer influence.<h4>Methods</h4>First-year college students (n = 104) from a southwestern U.S...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2020-01-01
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| Series: | PLoS ONE |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0242681 |