Prenatal, perinatal, early life, and sociodemographic factors underlying racial differences in the likelihood of high body mass index in early childhood

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 102, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 2057-2067

  Weden, Margaret M ^a   Brownell, Peter ^a   Rendall, Michael S ^a  

^a RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CAUCASIAN; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; FEMALE; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; INFANT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; NEGRO; NEWBORN; OBESITY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; RISK; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGE FACTORS; BODY MASS INDEX; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LOGISTIC MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OBESITY; ODDS RATIO; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84867548996     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2012.300686     Document Type: Article

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