Early Life Cognitive Abilities and Body Weight: Cross-Sectional Study of the Association of Inhibitory Control, Cognitive Flexibility, and Sustained Attention with BMI Percentiles in Primary School Children

The objective of this study was to investigate the association of different cognitive abilities with children’s body weight adjusted for further weight influencing sociodemographic, family, and lifestyle factors. Cross-sectional data of 498 primary school children (7.0 ± 0.6 years; 49.8% boys) parti...

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Main Authors: Tamara Wirt, Anja Schreiber, Dorothea Kesztyüs, Jürgen M. Steinacker
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2015-01-01
Series:Journal of Obesity
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/534651