Prediction of childhood obesity by infancy weight gain: an individual-level meta-analysis.

To assess the predictive ability of infant weight gain on subsequent obesity we performed a meta-analysis of individual-level data on 47,661 participants from 10 cohort studies from the UK, France, Finland, Sweden, the US and Seychelles. For each individual, weight SD scores at birth and age 1 year...

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Main Authors: Druet, C, Stettler, N, Sharp, S, Simmons, R, Cooper, C, Smith, G, Ekelund, U, Lévy-Marchal, C, Jarvelin, MR, Kuh, D, Ong, K
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2012