Season of birth is associated with birth weight, pubertal timing, adult body size and educational attainment: a UK Biobank study
Season of birth, a marker of in utero vitamin D exposure, has been associated with a wide range of health outcomes. Using a dataset of ∼450,000 participants from the UK Biobank study, we aimed to assess the impact of this seasonality on birth weight, age at menarche, adult height and body mass index...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2015-10-01
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| Series: | Heliyon |
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| Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844015302413 |