Child to adult body mass index in the 1958 British birth cohort: Associations with parental obesity

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 376-381

  Lake, Julie K ^a   Power, Chris ^a   Cole, Tim J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Body mass index; Child to adult tracking; Obesity; Parent

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SELF REPORT;

EID: 0030825835     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.77.5.376     Document Type: Article

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