Healthy-Weight Kindergarten Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder May Become Overweight and Obese during the First Few Years of Elementary School

Healthy-Weight Kindergarten Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder May Become Overweight and Obese during the First Few Years of Elementary School

Analysis of a population-based, nationally-representative longitudinal sample from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 2010-11 identified an increase in healthy-weight children with autism spectrum disorder becoming overweight and obese between first and second grade, thus...

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Main Authors: Misha Eliasziw, PhD, Tanja V.E. Kral, PhD, Mary Segal, PhD, Linmarie Sikich, MD, Sarah Phillips, MS, MPH, David J. Tybor, PhD, Linda G. Bandini, PhD, Carol Curtin, PhD, Aviva Must, PhD
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021-01-01
Series:The Journal of Pediatrics: X
Subjects:
intellectual disability
body mass index
childhood development
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590042021000112

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