Maternal distress in early life predicts the waist-to-hip ratio in schoolchildren

Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 72-80

  Kozyrskyj, A L ^a   Zeng, Y ^a   Colman, I ^a   Hayglass, K T ^b   Sellers, E A C ^b   Becker, A B ^b   MacNeil, B J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

early puberty; Key wordschildren; overweight; postpartum distress; stress reactivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862019057     PISSN: 20401744     EISSN: 20401752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S2040174410000723     Document Type: Article

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