Prenatal parental separation and body weight, including development of overweight and obesity later in childhood.

Prenatal parental separation and body weight, including development of overweight and obesity later in childhood.

Early parental separation may be a stress factor causing a long-term alteration in the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal-axis activity possibly impacting on the susceptibility to develop overweight and obesity in offspring. We aimed to examine the body mass index (BMI) and the risk of overweight and ob...

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Main Authors: Lena Hohwü, Jin Liang Zhu, Lise Graversen, Jiong Li, Thorkild I A Sørensen, Carsten Obel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4361592?pdf=render

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