How Has the Age-Related Process of Overweight or Obesity Development Changed over Time? Co-ordinated Analyses of Individual Participant Data from Five United Kingdom Birth Cohorts

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2015, Pages

  Johnson, William ^a   Li, Leah ^b   Kuh, Diana ^a   Hardy, Rebecca ^a  

^a MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGING; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PLOTS AND CURVES; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNITED KINGDOM; YOUNG ADULT; COHORT ANALYSIS; OVERWEIGHT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; UNITED KINGDOM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84930526703     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001828     Document Type: Article

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